Last week, a friend's daughter committed suicide. I'm 66, soon to be 67 and grew up with this guy and, in fact, he does handyman chores for me at my manufacturing plant. He is not a gun owner, nor a hunter.
His daughter was 28, and in front of the local police department (1/4 mile from where we live), live streamed on FB, shooting herself in the head. She was gainfully employed at a local hospital in marketing. She was not a drug user. She graduated from UNC, maybe 5 years ago, and was not what could be called "a person that should be watched", but evidently was suffering depression. One of the worse funerals I was ever at.
Where did she get the gun? My point is, no law would have prevented the act she committed. It could have been poison, vehicle or knife. Why in front of a police station? If someone would have tried to stop her, would others have been injured?
By laws, we're trying to rationalize, irrational acts. There is a deeper, multi-faceted problem here that all are failing to grasp.
His daughter was 28, and in front of the local police department (1/4 mile from where we live), live streamed on FB, shooting herself in the head. She was gainfully employed at a local hospital in marketing. She was not a drug user. She graduated from UNC, maybe 5 years ago, and was not what could be called "a person that should be watched", but evidently was suffering depression. One of the worse funerals I was ever at.
Where did she get the gun? My point is, no law would have prevented the act she committed. It could have been poison, vehicle or knife. Why in front of a police station? If someone would have tried to stop her, would others have been injured?
By laws, we're trying to rationalize, irrational acts. There is a deeper, multi-faceted problem here that all are failing to grasp.