[kstew43]

A 62-year-old Village of Duval man died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Fourth of July incident at his home.....

It has to be the heat.....making people go crazy.....

[goodtimesintv]

Originally Posted by kstew43

A 62-year-old Village of Duval man died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Fourth of July incident at his home.....

It has to be the heat.....making people go crazy.....

And once again, the inanimate object, not the ill-minded person, kills.

[Jima64]

It is so easy to forget how dangerous a gun is when holding it for cleaning or whatever reason. JUst so dangerous to not be completely aware. Sorry to hear about this accident.

[Chazz]

Originally Posted by Jima64

...Sorry to hear about this accident.

I thought it was suicide!

[John_W]

Doesn't read like an accident;

A 62-year-old Village of Duval man died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in a Fourth of July incident at his home in the Double Palm Villas.

Multiple Sumter County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the home on Bayberry Court at about 9 p.m. after receiving a call alerting them to an “armed and dangerous person.”

A woman told a 911 dispatcher that a man with a loaded firearm had threatened to kill her. She fled the home.

When deputies arrived on the scene, they found the man had shot himself in the head with a .40-caliber handgun.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Jima64

It is so easy to forget how dangerous a gun is when holding it for cleaning or whatever reason. JUst so dangerous to not be completely aware. Sorry to hear about this accident.

Once the bullets are removed the only way for it to be dangerous is to hit someone over the head with it.

I never understood the "I was cleaning it and it went off." statement. Guns don't "go off". The only way for them to go off is to pull the trigger.

The first thing you do if you're going to clean your gun is to remove the ammunition. If it's a revolver all you need to do is to remove the bullets from the cylinder. If it's a semi automatic, you remove the magazine and clear the chamber. Once you do that the gan cannot fire.

I've been taught to treat every gun as if it is loaded. Even if you unload it and lay it down on a table or hand it to someone else, when you get it back check the magazine and clear the chamber.

And I agree. This was a suicide not an accident.

[kcrazorbackfan]

Originally Posted by Jima64

It is so easy to forget how dangerous a gun is when holding it for cleaning or whatever reason. JUst so dangerous to not be completely aware. Sorry to hear about this accident.

Accident? A self-inflicted gun shot is not an accident. Not the weapons fault; it did not turn itself toward the persons head, it did not pull the trigger on its own.

[Miles42]

What don't you get about Suicide. Not an accident.

[outlaw]

Guns kill <10,000 per year. Guns protect over 100,000 victims per year.
Smoking kills >400,000 per year.

[rubicon]

The thread is about a person who committed suicide with a gun. It could have been a knife, a rope, a pill, a cop (cop suicide) a car, a jump out a tall building, a walk in the ocean. My best boyhood friend committed suicide with a gun at the age of 35. There was absolutely nothing anyone could do to stop him from self destruction.

It should be obvious by now that our society is so backward when it comes to the issue of mental health needs. Most people are back in the dark ages on this issue and those who immediately view guns as the problem miss the issue altogether.

I also know of a guy who used a knife to his neck to end is life.

[Bonnevie]

only my opinion but I think the presence of a gun makes an impulsive decision more likely to achieve the result. I imagine a knife would do it, but I suspect less people could go thru with it.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Once the bullets are removed the only way for it to be dangerous is to hit someone over the head with it.

I never understood the "I was cleaning it and it went off." statement. Guns don't "go off". The only way for them to go off is to pull the trigger.

The first thing you do if you're going to clean your gun is to remove the ammunition. If it's a revolver all you need to do is to remove the bullets from the cylinder. If it's a semi automatic, you remove the magazine and clear the chamber. Once you do that the gan cannot fire.

I've been taught to treat every gun as if it is loaded. Even if you unload it and lay it down on a table or hand it to someone else, when you get it back check the magazine and clear the chamber.

And I agree. This was a suicide not an accident.

I agree who cleans loaded gun!

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Bonnevie

only my opinion but I think the presence of a gun makes an impulsive decision more likely to achieve the result. I imagine a knife would do it, but I suspect less people could go thru with it.

Don't buy guns to clean potato's with.

[Bonnevie]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Don't buy guns to clean potato's with.

I don't understand this. I assume people buy guns thinking of using them to protect themselves from others. I simply believe the presence of a gun in the home might make someone who is drunk, or overly upset do something impulsive as what may have occurred in this case.

[tedquick]

If a person chooses to end their life they are going to end it, gun or no gun. I have known a number of people over the decades who have ended their lives and each one chose their own method. A pistol, a shot gun, a rope, a plastic bag, a bridge abutment and these are just off the top of my head.