Would you keep this?

[kozak6]

I'm glad you found something positive in this tragedy. It sounds like a very difficult situation.

I likely would have sold the pistol and given the money to the mother or done something else with the money for her.

 

[Mr.Blue]

Sell it and donate the money to a good cause in your friend's name. Some suicide prevention charity or St. Jude (children's cancer hospital).

Do you think his father would keep the gun if his son shot himself with it?

 

[mnrivrat]

It looks like its not only the ant-gun folks who have trouble seperating the tool from the task

I bet you don't give much thought to the fork he ate his last meal with. For me its not worth giving much thought to .

 

[Mr.Blue]

I bet you don't give much thought to the fork he ate his last meal with. For me its not worth giving much thought to .

I don't like to criticize posts, but that is a ridiculous analogy.

 

[mnrivrat]

I don't like to criticize posts, but that is a ridiculous analogy.

For you perhaps it is - for me they are both inanitate objects and simply tools. To put more on them than that is simply misplaced and emotional waste. I find that ridiculous ,so I guess we're just two different kinda people.

 

[Jim Watson]

It would only bring back the sad memory to me.
As said above , I would break the chain and sell it with no accompanying story.

A friend shot himself. His family made no effort to recover the gun, it no doubt lies rusting in the PD evidence locker. His OTHER guns went to his brother. Who was shooting one of them today.