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To: neverdem

From memory; Murders by firearm and suicides by firearm are about the same percentage.


21 posted on 09/03/2008 7:25:57 PM PDT by B4Ranch ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you"--John Steinbeck)
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To: B4Ranch

I realize things have got to be pretty rough for a person to take their own life, but I tend to get a bit angry with folks who use a gun.

I know two brothers who did this about 15 years apart. Both had families and both shot themselves in their homes. This leaves a horrible visual scene for their families to discover. One of the brothers laid out a sheet, sat down on it and shot himself in the head. He must have watched too much TV and thought he’d have just a tiny hole and maybe a pool of blood, but in reality, he did have a tiny little hole at the entrance and a huge gaping exit hole where it blew bone, skin and brain matter all over the walls for his family to clean up.


25 posted on 09/03/2008 7:34:28 PM PDT by umgud
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