Mindy McCready already being used by anti gunners

[carbinemike]

People are already using her suicide from last weekend for political gain are about as low as you can get. She was messed up for a long time, attempted suicide multiple times, lost her soul mate a month ago to suicide and has fought addiction...yet it's the gun's fault.

"It's access to weaponry that turns desperate people into suicides," says psychiatrist Kenneth Duckworth, medical director for the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Though the loved ones of those who commit suicide often wonder why someone might want to die, mental health professionals trying to prevent suicide say it's more important to examine how the person tried to do it.

 

[John A.]

Does it really matter if they jumped off a bridge, set themselves on fire, put a bullet in their brain, suicide by police, drug overdose, hanging, walk off into the ocean, crash your car at a high rate of speed, slit your wrist?

Sure, it's sad no matter how they accomplish it, but when you desire more to be dead than alive, that's a lot easier than going on living.

Politicizing someone's death or using it for personal or monetary gain as that psychiatrist on behalf of himself and whatever organization he drew attention to by name to get publicity is just wrong to do that to the family.

My heartfelt condolences.

 

[OhioArcher]

Mutliple attempts using drugs didn't work for her. Some say attempts with drugs are a cry for help since many times help arrives before it is too late. Not so with a firearm. There is a finality to the act. Maybe if those that professed to love her had done more to ensure this didn't happen then she may still be alive.

But the gun didn't jump up against her head and pull its own trigger. Anymore than a car driving itself into a bridge or oncoming traffic (happened here and killed more than the car operator). Blaming the gun instead of a person's shortcomings is pathetic and a tactic we see time and time again..

 

[old mossy]

,,,,aint it the truth,,,

 

[MikeD]

People have been killing themselves and others since long before guns were ever invented. And you know what if every gun in the workld disappeared overnight, people sill still kill themselves and others.

Blaming a gun for someones suicide is like blaming Craftsman when the mechanic does a crappy job.