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Above is a tweet (s)he did on the 26th.  Then a week later, she commits suicide.  A day after 3 of 4 firearm related bills pass into law. 

Here is her suicide note.

http://i.imgur.com/6kXGpAs.png

It's quite sad that this person had to go through so many years of suffering.  I don't know with 100% certainty if this is real or not, but according to people's comments on her suicide note, they confirmed that she went through with it.

However it brings a question, to my mind at least, as to why people even associate guns and suicide together.

This person made a conscious effort to purchase a shotgun....wait the required 10 day waiting period...then commit suicide a day after AB 1014 was decided on.  She even admits in her note that she was "counting down" to October 1st. 

The fact that she decided to do it with a firearm goes to show that her last act on earth was a political stunt and used her situation and her suffering as "ammunition" against anti gun control advocates.  However in my opinion, it actually did the exact opposite.

When are people going to learn that firearms don't lead to suicide and having possession of one doesn't do shit in increasing the possibility of it happening.  Her making the conscious decision to purchase the firearm, wait for the waiting period to end AND time everything with laws being passed in her state just proves without  a doubt that the firearm had nothing to do with her ultimate decision.  We lost Robin Williams a little over a month ago and he didn't need a firearm to commit his final act......only because he didn't use his suffering as a political stunt.  It basically shows us that if someone is intent on going through with this act, it's going to happen regardless of the tools available to them.

I don't think this comes off as a political stunt, and certainly not one concerning firearms. She brings up the shotgun, only to reference why she had a "countdown". I think you are reading too much into that aspect. The bulk of the letter was discussing depression.

Will her friends and family blame the gun? Yes, probably. That's because blaming an inanimate object is better than admitting they failed to recognize the signs of depression and did nothing to help her.

Is there a link between firearms and suicide? Impossible to tell. Correlation vs causation. Too many individuals factors.

What always bothered me, is that when anit-gunners consistently quote numbers on the total number of deaths every year by firearms, they seem to forget that 2 out of 3 deaths are self inflicted. And the remaining 33% has police shootings and legal self defense cases mixed in as well.

I don't think this comes off as a political stunt, and certainly not one concerning firearms. She brings up the shotgun, only to reference why she had a "countdown". I think you are reading too much into that aspect. The bulk of the letter was discussing depression.

Will her friends and family blame the gun? Yes, probably. That's because blaming an inanimate object is better than admitting they failed to recognize the signs of depression and did nothing to help her.

Is there a link between firearms and suicide? Impossible to tell. Correlation vs causation. Too many individuals factors.

What always bothered me, is that when anit-gunners consistently quote numbers on the total number of deaths every year by firearms, they seem to forget that 2 out of 3 deaths are self inflicted. And the remaining 33% has police shootings and legal self defense cases mixed in as well.

i fail to see the link to AB 1014

i fail to see the link to AB 1014

Maybe the two had nothing to do with each other. 

But seeing how the main stream media likes to manipulate people into believing things by playing to their emotions, i'd figure i'd do the same thing since so many people like to read the things i write.