SS: Suicide at Work

[ShawnLee]

So... Someone offed himself at the shooting range I work part-time at. That was fun... Sarcasm, in case you didn't get the tone.

Medics came, and they went to work on him. If he actually survived, it'll be a miracle, but I'm hopeful. As far as I know (and from what I saw) he looked dead to me. Way too much blood to be anything minor.

Just a bad situation...

[Jenny]

Suck!

Scott said, Why would you go to a gun range to shoot yourself to death?

I gave him a duh look...

[johnnymk]

Guess it's better than running in front of a tractor trailer or lying on the railroad tracks.

[ShawnLee]

Guess it's better than running in front of a tractor trailer or lying on the railroad tracks.

Not sure how it's better, but oh well.

[nickel]

suckage for his family, friends, the witnesses, and any one who cared.

[thresher]

Maybe he thought something was in his barrel? Or scratched his ear at an inopportune moment?

[Daedalus]

Weird. Similar thing happend at a range I used to go to. A "spectator" asked one of the shooters if he could try a few rounds with the shooter's gun. The shooter obliged, and the guy killed himself right there on the spot. Suicide on a budget I guess.

[johnnymk]

Not sure how it's better, but oh well.

It's less messy and hpoefully death is more rapid.

[ShawnLee]

It's less messy and hpoefully death is more rapid.

Not really. That's actually not true.

I don't know about the rapid part, but it was pretty darned messy. The resulting blood and the pieces of head are pretty much at the top of the list of things I don't ever want to see again in my lifetime.
Death being more rapid, eh. Apparently, a lot of these end up being shocks to the system, but not bad enough to kill outright. Rather, it leaves the person in a state of brain-injury or brain-death where they remain "alive" but gone.

[sixpac shakur]

Geez, did you know the guy well?

[gwilks98]

Wow...why even bother going to a range?

[ShawnLee]

Geez, did you know the guy well?

Nope. Brand new shooter that came in with his friend for the first time that day.

And the last time, I guess.

[guiseppewv]

Sorry man.

Are you sure it was a suicide and not an accident? You did say they were a new shooter.

[utcpal]

I doubt its not a suicide too

[Houdini]

That really sucks. I worry about similar things when I'm at the range. But I worry more when I'm in the far left lane, someone finishes shooting, and then turns toward me pointing the muzzle right at my gut. Then they get pissed when you tell them to point the thing down range. "It's ok...It's unloaded!" Riiiiggght.

I have heard of people going to gun ranges, paying for an hour, RENTING a gun, buying ammo, and blowing their heads off. I guess it's convenient, and not in his/her house, making the discovery and mess someone else's problem instead of a family member/friend/etc.

But I'm sorry you had to deal with seeing all that stuff. Something like that can stay with you for a while.

-H

[cadetevon]

Man. Major suckage.

I'm sorry that you are going through all of this.

[JesseeezMom]

A radio DJ said that he went to a range in Las Vegas and the guy in the stall next to him killed himself. That was the first and last time he went to a shooting range.