Warning, oh my gosh the trigger warnings, I’m going to post some graphic and awful stuff in this post. TO keeep that off the main page, I’m going to cleanse the top of this post with a video of a puppy.
Handguns are not very good guns to begin with. Their range of effectiveness is relatively close range, and frankly to me I’ve always thought a knife would do a better job most of the time. People are more frightened of knives, and knives never misfire. Knives don’t need ammo, nor do they misfire and hurt people you don’t intend. It’s just part of the West that stuck with us I guess, I think it also has a lot to do with suicide. Handguns are also really good at killing people. Killing someone with a knife actually takes more skill.
Any gun makes you way more of a target for home invasion, FYI. I think it’s hilarious the NRA wants people to think that guns make people safe when a gun raises the chances of a gun related injury in the home. I’m not even against guns for their purpose, it’s just gun statistics are purposefully supressed and it’s only getting moreso.
Anyway my new truecrime story had a bit about a handgun supposedly doing what it was supposed to;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgkpYM267vs
And it’s resisting posting as normally viewable, typical. Anyway I’m going to jump to the relativant bit and summarize because I don’t expect you to watch the whole hour, though you might love true crime as much as I. One of the two accused murderers is being interviewed by detectives and has her purse on her lap. Standard prisoners dilemma, her partner has already confessed. This lady, Jenn is denying everything. They keep asking her why she isn’t worried. Suddenly she pulls a handgun from her purse and shoots herself to death.
I had to listen to it twice because I think the narrator mispeaks, because there is no way to shoot yourself in the back of the head.
I just think it has to be another example of that love affair with handguns, because she says that what she has in her purse is something to keep herself calm. I can kind of relate, she’s not worried because she’s not getting arrested. I know she’s probably an awful murderer and all, but putting that aside, this is the problem with guns being so easy to get, because the exit is so easy to access.
It brought to mind another dramatic handgun suicide, Budd Dwyer. He was a Senator who had just been convicted of bribery and he went on live TV where he read a speech talking about how he felt how he’d been cheated, then he shot himself right there on live TV. Getting access to this bit was incredibly hard, but I think it’s only fair to his memory to remember his death.
https://ifunny.co/video/graphic-budd-dwyer-a-senator-from-pa-who-was-about-Q0kM0w8l8?s=cl
I think it’s nostalgic, remember when you could get politicians convicted for bribery? Those were the days.
I think it also stuck with me, because we all have at least one politician we wish would go on TV and do something like that. A relic from more honest times.
Anyway, do me a favor and check the weapon used in the next murder you see. Chances are, it’ll be a handgun. Same goes for suicide. Handguns cause more deaths, it’s the American way to go out. Also do me a favor, find a more original way to go. The reason is that if you do go that way, you’re potentially leaving another ghost gun that a child might find. Worse, it might end up on the street being used in crime.
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I remember seeing that Budd Dwyer video years back when YouTube was still the wild west — also one of news anchor Christine Chubbuck who shot herself on live TV. I doubt if you can view them anymore and in any case, I stopped looking for shit like that a long time ago. There’s enough in this world to bring me down on a daily basis without actively searching for it.
If and when I decide on departing, I really don’t want to use a gun, despite the obvious advantages (and it didn’t even occur to me that someone else could find it and make it a “ghost gun”). I was in the Army, and I know that back in the day, shooting oneself was an honorable way to go, but then I’d be in the company of all those German generals who shot themselves at the end of WW2. Ironically, the most honorable of them, Erwin Rommel, used cyanide. In any case, I plan to be outside the US (I lived in Europe for a time) where I couldn’t get a hand gun even if I wanted to without risking prison, so that puts a damper on things anyway.
I find it interesting what different cultures consider an honorable death. For some you have to be cut down in the heat of battle, nothing else will do. Some it has to be a sword. Some it has to be at the hand of a noble enemy.
I know that for some time I thought that the most noble death would be to go out with boots on, doing my assigned work duties. It wouldn’t matter how, heart attack or to be attacked by an assailant, just that I was working right up to the end, I think that must be something Germanic.
Now I think there will be no honor in death, because death is the ultimate admission that life must end. Honorable deeds must be done in the heat of life, death is rarely something we can control. Suicide is after all a desperate grasp to regain some control…. a confession that control is what we lack.
It appears that you are totally clueless about firearms and have bought into the liberal agenda of “guns are bad.” Such is life and I cannot help you. I carry a handgun every single day I leave my house. I am totally fine. Yes guns are an easy way to check out and if I want to, I have the easy way. Who the fuck cares how I want to check out and can say how? You? Fact is I do NOT want to check out and it is for my protection from other assholes who may harm me. Life is not safe, learn to protect yourself.
Look if you have your heart set on that as your way out, I can understand that. Some people have a certain method that they want because they have very specific reasons.
The people I wanted to catch with my request was those who go to it because it’s some kind of default. The same people who give to charity because the cashier asks. Some people are suggestable. If you know what you want in life or death, I admire your stubbornness. Go forth and grab what you desire.