[TalBlack]

“….whose understated economical literary style…”

That ain’t what Raymond Chandler thought and it is t what I think either. I found him repetitive and overwrought. He and Joseph Conrad are the only authors I. My father’s library that I could never get into.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

If people really want to end their lives, they will. They can OD, hang themselves, slit their wrists, drown in carbon monoxide (so to speak), or leap from a building.

A bullet is at least quick and painless if done right.

If you want to use a tool to end your life, you will. Whether a knife or a gun, a tool’s a tool.

[threefinger]

... Like his physician father before him, Hemingway died by suicide on July 2nd, 1961...."

Wow, Hemingway's father also died by suicide on July 2nd, 1961? WHO KNEW?

[threefinger]

In a perfect world, anybody who's medically adjudged a mental defective should have their access to firearms limited. Hemingway had had ECT done twice, so I'd say that more than qualifies him for the rubber room squad.

But if the world were perfect, we wouldn't need guns in the first place, now would we?

Hemingway's own family knew he was manic, depressed, and a danger to himself. His wife had locked up the guns and didn't think he could find the key.

She was wrong.

The 2nd Amendment is no more responsible for Hemingway's suicide than Ben & Jerry's is for Rosie O'Donnell being a fat lesbian.