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Showing Original Post only (View all)Parents Blame Suicide on $10 Rented Gun [View all]
SANTA ANA, Calif. (CN) - An Orange County shooting range rented a .45 caliber handgun to a woman and let her walk out the door and kill herself with it, her parents claim in court -- and they say it's not the first time it's happened there.
The parents claim it's at least the third time the center rented a gun used for suicide or violence.
On-Target Indoor Shooting Range left 34-year-old Brooke Morrison "totally unattended" on the range after renting her the gun, then let her walk out the door with it in her purse, her parents Brian and Terri Pfahler say in Orange County Court.
Morrison then called her boyfriend and told him "she had a gun and intended to kill herself" and she did, though her boyfriend immediately called emergency personnel, according to the July 9 lawsuit.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/07/14/parents-blame-suicide-on-10-rented-gun.htm
The parents claim it's at least the third time the center rented a gun used for suicide or violence.
On-Target Indoor Shooting Range left 34-year-old Brooke Morrison "totally unattended" on the range after renting her the gun, then let her walk out the door with it in her purse, her parents Brian and Terri Pfahler say in Orange County Court.
Morrison then called her boyfriend and told him "she had a gun and intended to kill herself" and she did, though her boyfriend immediately called emergency personnel, according to the July 9 lawsuit.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/07/14/parents-blame-suicide-on-10-rented-gun.htm
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The solution to the problem of nuclear weapons is obviously more and more nuclear weapons!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#2
Guns make killing so easy-easy and as you point out, are easily transportable and concealable,
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#10
Umm, isn't Australia's suicide rate slightly *higher* than that of the United States?
benEzra
Aug 2015
#59
The gun was along for the ride whispering sweet nothings about how EASY it is use a gun to kill
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#14
Because your guns keep coming for us, we are coming for your guns. I kept it simple.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#24
Are you sure? Better go check, evidently they roam around when we're not looking???
ileus
Aug 2015
#64
Did I leave the safe open again? Jesus, these things are like herding cats, I swear.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#41
In my small collection I have both a French musket and a Continental built musket
oneshooter
Aug 2015
#65
So, the only thing I think the range did wrong, was, they allowed her to steal the gun.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#3
I blame a lot of murders on irresponsible gun laws, but suicides are different
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#4
the suicide issue is not a gun issue, it's a mental health issue primarily.
the band leader
Jul 2015
#45
You can't run away from a bullet and the gun is designed to kill, so it is SO much easier and
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#13
So what you are saying is that when she committed suicide she actually wanted to die and it was not
clffrdjk
Jul 2015
#21
Sorry, I ran out of crayons just now and can not help you any further with your education today.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#22
Damn it must suck holding a position that you can't support with even just one logical answer.
clffrdjk
Jul 2015
#25
Thats hardly an argument that applies to people that choose to run into a bullet.
beevul
Jul 2015
#44
"I am unsure why this concept still perplexes some in our society."
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#49
Logic is something the law respects much more than gun lovers and NRA BizzaroWorld "logic".
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#34
Assisting people who are suicidal, regardless of their preferred means of action,
branford
Jul 2015
#51