Posted on 09/26/2011 5:18:28 AM PDT by marktwain
New Hampshire --(Ammoland.com)- Recently New Hampshire gun dealers were sent a large manila envelope from the NH Firearms Safety Coalition.
The packet contained a number of items with a disturbing anti-gun-rights message, including a full color poster proclaiming:
“Suicides In NH Far Outnumber Homicides. Firearms Are The Leading Method Attempts With A Gun Are More Deadly Than Attempts With Other Methods.”
The poster may be viewed here: www.theconnectproject.org/uploads/docs/Posterfinal.pdf .
Misleading & a Recipe for a Lawsuit Suicides outnumber homicides in NH because NH is a low-crime state. According to the National Institute of Mental Heath, firearms are not the “LEADING METHOD” amongst women; poisonings are the “LEADING METHOD” for that demographic. Firearms are a tool which can abused like anything else. Their effectiveness in suicide is irrelevant. The major causes of suicide, such as untreated depression, are the real problem.
The packet also included a “Tip Sheet” to New Hampshire firearm retailers that lists eight “Signs that a potential buyer could be suicidal,” eight “Options for responding to a potentially suicidal buyer,” and four “What else can I do” suggestions. This “Tip Sheet” creates a handy checklist for a personal injury attorney to use when suing a gun dealer who sells a gun to a suicide victim. One can well imagine the trial lawyer questioning the gun dealer “Tip” by “Tip” as to whether the gun dealer noticed any of the listed “Tips” or whether he had trained his employees to do so. The “Tip Sheet” may be viewed here:
www.theconnectproject.org/uploads/docs/Tipsfordealers.pdf .
There is also a “Firearm Purchase Checklist” provided for customers to sign. This “Checklist” includes such affirmations as “I am not buying this firearm with the intent of harming another person or myself and pledge to use it only in a legal and responsible manner.” So much for a person buying a gun for self defense, since the intent of a self defense purchaser is very much to harm another person by the lawful use of deadly force, should it become necessary.
The “Firearm Purchase Checklist” also requires the salesperson to know the buyer’s true intent for the purchase of the gun by requiring the salesperson to sign off on the following: “Salesperson: I have demonstrated the safe operation and locking of this firearm and have removed the chamber plug. Nothing in the purchaser’s manner, actions, or speech indicate that he/she intends to use this firearm for illegal purposes or is otherwise unqualified to legally own or safely operate a firearm. I have double-checked all paperwork associated with this sale and certify that it is accurate and complete in all respects.” (Emphasis added) This way, the salesperson can be held accountable if there is a future problem. The “Firearm Purchase Checklist” may be viewed here:
www.theconnectproject.org/uploads/docs/FirearmPurchaseChecklist.pdf .
There is even a video posted online (www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Fu2qmShZg) pushing this effort, and the speaker says, at 0:30,“The Firearms Safety Coalition people came in and asked me to put it up. I know they are not anti-firearm but they are anti-suicide.” (Emphasis added)
Those at the Harvard School of Public Health and anyone else at all familiar with the causes of individual behaviors such as suicide attempts all know the theories that explain such behavior. It is common and essential knowledge for any expert in the field. If one of them promotes this garbage in public, ask them where, in the Theory of Planned Behavior, the availability of a firearm is an influence on the intent to commit suicide. They all know that it is a negligible influence. The Theory of Planned Behavior has been extensively studied and explains the intent to do something pretty well. It is probably the most widely accepted predictor theory.
When you show that you know this, it will catch them by surprise, and they will have to really scramble for an explanation.
I’ve got to make a run down 101 to check out the selection at Milford. Been meaning to do that for a while now.
“Suicides In NH Far Outnumber Homicides. Firearms Are The Leading Method Attempts With A Gun Are More Deadly Than Attempts With Other Methods.”
Years ago some city enacted a three day waiting period to try and prevent suicides by gun.
Several people were turned down when they tried to buy guns. Later these same exact people killed themselves by other means.
The local police chief bragged about how the waiting period had prevented gun suicides.
But these same people were STILL DEAD by their own hand.
Many years ago San Francisco had several murders in one weekend. No guns were involved.
The local police and politicians called for more GUN CONTROL” to prevent such thing from happening in the future.
One of the responses should be simple. Create a checklist of the eight “Signs that a potential leaflet distributor could be gun-control fanatic or work for a contingency lawyer,” eight “Options for responding to an attempt to trick you into legally exposing yourself to litigation or barratry,” and four “What else can I do” suggestions.
In general true. The CDC (bless their hearts) did a study which found the only group where firearms ownership resulted is a statistically significant higher incidence of suicide was white males over 70.
Save the Geezer! Ban the Gun!
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