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2010-07-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Pompano man, 85, gets back weapons seized by Sheriff's Office

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Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-07-21 13:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Well, if we have free-wheeling abortion rights, why then should a deputy have the right to prevent one from killing thee self?

Posted by Jack Salami 2010-07-21 14:08|| 2010-07-21 14:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Very proactive of the sheriff, but couldn't he have just cut his wrists? And what were to become of the guns? Kept forever? Raises many more questions than answers.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-07-21 17:35|| 2010-07-21 17:35|| Front Page Top

#3 The hidden problem here is "tandem death", and what to do about it. It is notorious that all too often, when one partner of an older married couple dies, the other partner is so stressed that they also die, or commit suicide, usually in a few days to a month later. (BTW this happened in my neighborhood just a few months ago. Natural death 3 days after spouse death.)

This problem, along with "grandmother death", when a grandchild graduates from high school or college, are so common that there are some proposals that such people be put on "health watches", until out of the hazard window.

This would include real time cardio monitoring, preventative drugs against sudden heart failure and stroke, keeping a defibrillator and oxygen handy, etc.

It also means keeping them on a suicide watch, for their family to take control of any firearms, issuing their medicines a dose at a time, and a willingness to call 911 if anything odd or ominous happens.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-07-21 19:00|| 2010-07-21 19:00|| Front Page Top

#4 An ACLU spokesman said he believes this is the first time in the organization's 90-year history that it has helped a gun owner retrieve his weapons from law enforcement.

And like Skokie, they'll parade this around for decades to show their 'balance'.

Posted by Pappy 2010-07-21 19:35|| 2010-07-21 19:35|| Front Page Top

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