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VT: Parents call for ‘waiting’ period for firearm purchases
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The parents of a 23-year-old Vermont man say if the state had a law requiring a waiting period for gun purchases their son who died by suicide late last year would be alive today.
Alyssa and Rob Black of Essex have been pushing that “cooling off” period law since, and Thursday they told their story to the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee as both opponents and supporters of a proposed waiting period for gun purchases looked on. |
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jac
(3/1/2019)
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How do they know he wouldn't have jumped off a bridge?
Don't blame the tool. Anyone intent on suicide will find a way. |
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netsyscon
(3/1/2019)
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| When you have finally reached the point that you are committed to killing yourself, nothing will stop you. The process can be very long, or very short. (a neighbors son went over the deep end when a cop shot at the boy when he ran, his mother found him in his bedroom the next day. Dead from a shotgun blast) I know and understand suicide and no waiting period is going to stop a person. |
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