A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself in front of a group of people, including children, who were attending a gun safety class Sunday in Bellevue, Washington, according to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
"Brian J. Parry reportedly used a pistol provided to participants to end his life in front of about a dozen people. A coroner’s report issued earlier in the week ruled his death a suicide, the Intelligencer noted.
The shooting took place at the West Coast Armory, which bills itself the state’s “premier indoor shooting range” at 31,000 square feet, featuring state-of-the-art shooting stalls and “NRA certified Range Safety Instructors” present at all times. "
Tragic, but I doubt there’s any way of preventing this. At some point a instructee is being trusted with a loaded gun, and it takes a second to put it to your head and pull the trigger.
Sadly, that is true, but I had posted earlier about a new trend of suicides at gun ranges, so my post about the guy in Washington was a recall to that earlier post.
As for suicides at gun ranges. I don’t really consider suicide very relevant in the gun control debate. With that said, if my kid becomes a depressed teenager, I would store all my guns at the range.
Representative Charles Rangel (D-NY) pleads that “millions of kids dying” from assault weapons- which apparently include handguns. Either he’s using hyperbole or attributing every death due to guns on the planet Earth.
We’ve been through this already. Kable thinks that posting links to anything gun related is somehow relevant to this thread. Which is stupid. Therefore, it qualifies.
" Malespini told police he was “trying to get rid of his wedding ring,” so he thought he would “shoot it off,” according to The Associated Press.
Officers said Malespini appeared to be intoxicated. While his finger was badly injured, the wedding ring was still on his finger, according to the AP. "
Well… racing to buy up pistols, shotguns and non-“military style” rifles out of a fear the AR-15 might be banned is pretty stupid. That’s probably what the relentlessly impartial Kable was trying to communicate. Kudos for your honesty!
Excellent point. He could’ve been cleaning a toaster oven, fishing tackle box or pair of tennis shoes, any of which could’ve gone off and his son would be just as dead. The fact that guns shoot deadly projectiles that can instantaneously kill people at a distance makes them no different from any other household object. You could easily kill someone with a pack of chewing gum if you jammed it into their eye socket hard enough. Why aren’t the gun-grabbers clamoring for background checks on Juicy Fruit?