Re: Please read! Re: columbine
Thor Cameron (my_colours@hotmail.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
My brother also committed suicide. He was 17. shot himself in the
temple.
Now, I'm no NRA member, in fact, I'm proud to say that I've never
fired a gun. I would like 99% of them gone.
However, taking guns away from people didn't stop the suicides who
gassed themselves, slit their wrists, hung themselves, etc.
Nor was murder invented with the first bullet.
In short, blaming guns for Columbine or suicides ar anything else is
tantamount to killing the messenger.
Thor
>
>Whether or not this relates to Columbine, I truly don't know. I
would just like to
>share this news in hopes of spurring stronger feelings for gun
control, especially
>with children: When I arrived at school today, I came to find out
that one of my
>friends' brother shot himself yesterday afternoon - twice in the
temple - he was 13
>years old. I, at first, thought it must have been an accident, but
once I talked to
>more of my friends, they told me that it looked as if it could not
have been anything
>but purposefully done. His sister had come into the room and found
him lying on the
>floor, barely conscious.
>Please, help to prevent this happening again. My friend's brother
may have been just
>one suicide case in many this year, but that doesn't make it any more
right that he
>had access to the gun.
>-Sarah
>
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