Guns are the problem.
Officers should not carry weapons home with them. If they own their own personal weapons there is little that can be done to stop a person that is determined to kill.
Suicide is a killing, not just a desperate act of passion or dispair. Stop the ability to kill and stop the suicide. The 'opportunity' is just as much a part of this as the act itself.
If guns didn't 'free flow' through this society, there would be less suicides and murders. Just that simple. The NRA will use statistics to validate their greed, but, the truth of the matter is guns kill.
Someone killed someone else here as well as themselves. The gun was the weapon.
The warning signs that police officer Steve Martin was a suicide risk (click here) were clear enough in hindsight: erratic behavior, disgust with his job, heavy drinking, a strained marriage. But the lack of foresight is what leaves his wife, Debbie, angry more than a year later....
...Suicide rates for police — at least 18 per 100,000 — are higher than for the general population, according to Audrey Honig, chief psychologist for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department....
LEBANON, Pa., Oct. 8, 2009
Gun-Toting Soccer Mom, Husband Found Dead
Meleanie Hain, Who Became Voice of Gun-Rights Movement, Part of Apparent Murder-Suicide
A suburban mother who became a voice of the gun-rights movement when she openly carried a loaded pistol to her daughter's soccer game was fatally shot Wednesday along with her parole-officer husband in an apparent murder-suicide at their home in Pennsylvania Dutch country, authorities said.
Police released scant details about the deaths of Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, but said more information would be released Friday after their autopsies.
"I'm devastated. I lost my daughter. I lost my best friend. The children lost their parents," Jenny Stanley, Meleanie Hain's mother, told WGAL-TV. Stanley added that the three children, ages 2, 6 and 10, are "hanging in there."
The children were at a neighbor's house by the time police arrived to answer 911 calls from neighbors, said Lebanon City Police Chief Daniel Wright.
"What they did or did not see as part of this is not something we're going to release," Wright said. Neighbors said the children ran outside and said their father had shot their mother, but Wright declined to disclose what investigators have concluded about how the deaths occurred....
