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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (598482)	1/19/2011 8:55:13 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575431

Person committing suicide with a gun doesn't get a chance to change his mind.... Not if he actually blows his brains out. Neither does the person who jumps off a high building, once he actually jumps. Both have a chance to change their mind before taking the final step. "I don't think many people buy a gun directly and specifically for, and immediately before, their suicide." The last gun suicide I knew drove himself over the MASS border to the first town in Vermont, bought a gun on the spot and killed himself nearby. That's one person, it doesn't really answer the point. Certainly some people do buy a gun for the purposes of committing suicide and then almost immediately use it for that purpose. But the number isn't very high. Setting a policy that effects tens of millions of people (and indirectly hundreds of millions) because of those few people doesn't make sense, esp. when their are other similar cases where a waiting period or other restrictions on gun purchase or carry has resulted in people being undefended against murderers. And I personally don't think there is anything in the constitution that gives an individual unbridled access to guns "Unbridled" is undefined in this context, but the amendment does give people the right to keep and bear arms. The 1st amendment isn't unbridled either, but would you impose a waiting period on someone who wanted to make a political statement?