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J Herring

On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 07:56:34 -0400, BAR wrote:

In article , says...

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:56:24 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:06:51 -0700, jps wrote:

How many each year in the US, something like 17,000?

And in states where guns are embraced, the percentages of gun suicides
is much higher.

"Matthew Warren, the son of evangelical megachurch pastor Rick Warren
who committed suicide last week, killed himself with an unregistered
gun he had bought online, the pastor said on Thursday.

"Someone on the Internet sold Matthew an unregistered gun. I pray he
seeks God's forgiveness. I forgive him. #MATTHEW 6:15," the pastor
tweeted, referencing a Biblical passage about the forgiveness of
sins."

What the hell doe any of this have to do with the suicide?

The Japanese, who the "gun safety" people love to point to, have a
much higher suicide rate than the US with virtually no guns.
Since you brought up the internet, I will remind you that a quick
Google search will give you dozens of ways to "punch out" without a
gun.

Perhaps the issue is that some people who want to die want to take a
lot of others with them.

BTW I am still not sure how you legally buy a gun on the internet. How
do they deliver the gun? Interstate sales and sales through the mail
have been illegal for 45 years.

Not if you order through a dealer online.

If you have an FFL on file with the vendor or other FFL dealer they will verify that your FFL
is current and send it to the address listed on your FFL. If you don't have an FFL you have
to provide an FFL in your state to have the firearm shipped to where you then have to go and
perform the transfer between you and your local FFL.

Bud's Guns just makes it easy for the buyer to find one.

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