Local chain of gun ranges bans rental firearms.....

[Tom Servo]

Let's not take a glib tone on suicide. It's a complex problem, and it takes a certain hopelessness and despair few of us can understand to drive someone to that point. If you've got insight into the problem, by all means offer suggestions. Otherwise, let's save the Psych 101 to the professionals.

I can tell you that cerebrospinal fluid is slippery stuff, and even if the employees aren't involved with the physical cleanup, they have to deal with the mental and emotional issues. All those just-above-minimum-wage lackeys gun folks love to disparage? Find me another field where folks in that situation would be back at work the next day.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

A small business(gun range) could have a SOP where only certain customers could rent weapons. Documented veterans, gun or CCW license holders, active or retired corrections/sworn LE, EMTs/firefighters etc.
I would feel safer if I were at a public access range where I knew the other shooters had documented training/licenses.

Trained people commit suicide as well and seems to be particularly higher in some of the groups you mentioned.
http://swampland.time.com/2014/01/10/report-suicide-rate-soars-among-young-vets/
http://www.tearsofacop.com/police/articles/lewis.html
http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/...n=display_arch&article_id=2669&issue_id=52012
http://www.firefighterclosecalls.com/news/fullstory/newsid/130593/layout/no

Your list of candidates looks more like a list of people in the community that we should respect more so than any sort of list of people that are particularly immune to suicide or that have any particular gun handling skills that prevent suicide. Your EMTs/Firefighters category doesn't even include people with mandatory firearms training. Sure they have training, but not firearms training.

I, too, am a bit put off by the use of "banned." Nothing has been banned. A commercial service has been withdrawn from the market for what may be a variety of reasons. Nobody's decision but theirs.

Well said.