Parents mourn their child, lost to suicide by gun.

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A 13 yr old boy was just found in my locale, having been missing for some days during awful weather. The worst was assumed, at least by some of us, even though the family of course held out hope; but then it turned out to be worse than that.

He had walked out, apparently upset over an email he'd received, into the woods without his phone or wallet. But as we know now, he did take a gun, and used it to take his life.

I will not post the particulars, although if you're from around here you know the story. I just don't want this discussion to turn up in Google. Come to think of it, even if you're not from around here, you probably know the story, because it has probably happened to a family near you, too.

It wasn't in the published reports, how he got the gun. Did the family normally keep guns? Or did he get it from another kid?

Who knows. It just seems way too easy for a 13 year old, upset over something that appears relatively minor, to pick up a gun, walk out, and end his life.