Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Guns, Carried Openly or Concealed, Threaten Our Safety [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)loves to ignore suicides that are MURDER-suicides, where the murder itself would be extremely unlikely to have been committed absent a firearm to make easy work of both deaths. One really does not see a lot of suicide-homicide by suffocation incidents, as I've often pointed out.
The permit would be irrelevant?
Really? Try the other way around. The fact that somebody uses a firearm to cause a death is not relevant to the question of whether they should have had a permit to carry the thing around in public?
Suicidal people really do, not infrequently, decide to gussy up their demise with a little publicity or some company in death. That is infinitely harder to do without a firearm. And the fact that someone with a permit to carry a firearm around in public has used their firearm to commit suicide just gives me the willies, personally, to think that such a person was given permission to do that.