Gun range suicide

[Badbullgator]

Read about them but never expected one locally.

Person commits suicide at Fort Myers gun range | The News-Press | news-press.com


It will be interesting as this range does rent guns. Prayers for the family.

Mods if this should be some place else please feel free to move

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[bandrich]

Sad for sure. We have a range that rented guns until they had two suicides. No more renting guns. I am sure glad I was not at the range when it happened. How terrible.

[Badbullgator]

I am all about gun rights, but things like this make yo wonder I renting them is a good idea. Not doing so does not stop anyone from buying and shooting a gun and it is nice I suppose to be able to try before you buy (I have never rented a gun), it it seems that most if not all of these have to do with rented guns. I have read that some ranges require that you either have a gun of you're own with you or a friend with you to rent. Seems like a good idea.

[Lish]

I've rented guns, especially when trying to decide what my next purchase will be. It's great to rent first and see how it feels, how it shoots, etc. I bought my first gun without shooting one like it first and I hated to shoot it, a year later I sold it and that's when I rented a couple of the ones I was considering next. It will really make me angry if places stop renting guns because of the risk of suicide, seriously out of how many guns a place rents in a year results in suicide? The attached article hasn't said at this point if he used a rented one, although it can probably be assumed.

I am sorry for this guy's family and for anyone who was there to witness it.

[OldVet]

You're not going to stop a determined suicide from happening. Hopefully they don't take anyone else with them.

[iguanadon]

A real shame. There was a thread here a couple of weeks ago that someone started because he went to a range without his own gun, wanted to rent, was by himself and they wouldn't rent to him. It was mentioned that he likely fit a "profile" for just such a thing as this. Can certainly understand the shooting ranges stance now.

[Darrow75]

A place I shoot at won't rent to a single person for just this reason. Their thinking is that a person alone is more likely to commit suicide than a person with another person or two.

[mulle46]

The worst I read/saw was the mom who killed her adult son then herself at a range with, IIRC,a rental gun, all on range surveillance cameras.

[lizjimbo]

There is a cc video at a range where a woman took her son, rented 2 firearms, shot and killed her son while he was putting a few downrange then committed suicide. Why do people feel it is necessary to kill their children. Here is a clue for anybody contemplating such an act...no, your children do not need to be with the Lord yet, they will do just fine without you, and no, the world is a good enough place for them to live in. Please just let them live.

[Badbullgator]

There is CCTV at every station on this range so I am sure it s on tape.

You won't stop people no matter what you do, but I think if I owned a range I would not rent guns. You could say the same thing about cars I guess, but I don't recall hearing about someone going to Avis and driving off a cliff on purpose.

[Badbullgator]

A place I shoot at won't rent to a single person for just this reason. Their thinking is that a person alone is more likely to commit suicide than a person with another person or two.

I agree with this and/or you can rent if you brought your own gun. If you have one already your not likely to rent one to kill yourself.

[Badbullgator]

I've rented guns, especially when trying to decide what my next purchase will be. It's great to rent first and see how it feels, how it shoots, etc. I bought my first gun without shooting one like it first and I hated to shoot it, a year later I sold it and that's when I rented a couple of the ones I was considering next. It will really make me angry if places stop renting guns because of the risk of suicide, seriously out of how many guns a place rents in a year results in suicide? The attached article hasn't said at this point if he used a rented one, although it can probably be assumed.

I am sorry for this guy's family and for anyone who was there to witness it.

That is the only link I could find at the time. Local news is reporting he rented a gun....

[RKM]

I like the idea of, in order to rent a gun, you must bring a gun. Kind of proves the fact that you're not renting for the sole purpose of suicide seeing as though many rent the gun in order to obtain a gun. Whereas if you already have a gun, the general consensus would be that you don't need to go to a range and rent a gun to commit suicide. You'll never prevent suicides as a whole, but I think by requiring a person who would like to rent a firearm, to bring a firearm, THAT would drastically reduce gun range suicides.

Makes it hard for a genuine first time gun purchaser to try a gun before they buy. However, if you don't own a gun, you at least know somebody who does. And if they don't, then THAT person knows somebody who does.

[wingryder]

In 2007 (the latest year for which we have national statistics), there were 34,598 suicides in the U.S. (94.8 suicides per day; 1 suicide every 15.2 minutes). This translates to an annual suicide rate of 11.5 per 100,000

- http://www.suicidology.org/c/documen...e=DLFE-244.pdf

Why is it that we only hear about this one? Perhaps it is politically motivated. It seems a subliminal message to blame guns for the suicide IMO... I instinctively feel a need to go on the defensive to defend gun rights and that is exactly what this story is about. Putting gun proponents on the defensive

[Pythius]

very horrible....and very scary.

indeed puts gun rental at ranges at a WHOLE new perspective.

we all to through a background check before we get to own a gun, but a gun-rental requires no such check.

perhaps rentals should end.