Reply #28: Regardless of whether it's suicide or not.... [View All]

[Sal316]

Psychologically, guns are impersonal and cold. It's substantially easier for someone to shoot themselves or someone else because of it. It takes milliseconds.

Things like ropes, knives, etc. are much more personal and intimate. You wanna hang yourself, hope you break your neck or else it's gonna be a miserable death. Slit your wrists? Sure, if you don't mind watching yourself bleeding out. Poison? Still time for a second thought.

With a gun it's over in less than that blink of an eye and, I would think, have a much greater chance of success.

Besides.. how many news stories do you hear about someone hanging themself versus the 'kids got the gun and unintentionally blew his best friend away' stories? I'm not just talking on the evening news, because we all know they're sensationalist, but in the paper, deeply buried.

If it's in the house there IS a greater risk of being shot, intentionally or not. That's just common sense.