interesting figures there.
suicides is a little tricky but based on accidental and homicides we could suggest that those as a result of firearms are “preventable” deaths.
suicides is tricky because if someone is in that frame of mind the gun option is just one of many that exist and removing the gun could just mean they find other options…
but - not all other options have the same certainty in result. drug overdose, or jumping off a bridge for instance can be survivable…eating a bullet fired in the mouth is not so to a degree also preventable.
they do say that many who choose suicide regret it at the point directly after the decision ie the moment they jumped off the bride - those who chose suicide, and chose a gun - they don’t get that chance it is a one way trip.
also how many of those suicides chose a gun simply because they had access to it?
would have have chosen suicide if it meant finding that bridge or stepping out in front of a car or train?
it could be seen as a “lazy” option…
One of the key points around suicide prevention is that for most people in crisis there is about a 30 minutes window where they will commit the act, so having things like Guns around and things like not storing pills in blister packs all make it more likely that they will succeed.
If you take a standard pack of paracetamol in the UK or Europe it contains 16 500mg tablets and you can only buy 2 packs. These pills are individual blisters so you need to sit there and punch each one out by hand. So from 1 shop you can get 16,000mg which takes time to prepare to take.
In the US you can buy the same pills in bottles of 100 and usually there is no limit on how many you can buy. Last time I was there I bought 2 bottles of a brand I like and that gave me 100,000mg of Paracetamol in bottles which if I was so minded I could’ve poured directly down my neck.
Risk of suicide is not of interest to the US, that’s why they won’t legislate on anything with that in mind.
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Slow drivers, TikTok, most reality TV shows, feeling like time is moving as fast as the government struck a deal with Brexit and when that one CI calls me Sir even though I’m a Cadet NCO
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There are the ways to call someone sir & then there ways to call someone sir… 
Depends whether it was a subtle joke at your expense, serious respect/an apology, or in the old fashioned way Wellington rollocks Simmerson in Sharpe.
It’s why officers like it when someone uses the term “boss” as it’s a sign of respect no-one is obligated to use.
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He asked me to hold on to a dictionary and said “Would you mind holding that, Sir?”, and later said “Thank you Sir” when I returned the dictionary
These shootings like plane and train crashes attract attention because it’s a lot in one go.
I read he was in the school for about an hour, how? Our kids schools were like prisons as is the school I work in. Can’t get in without a pass by one of two gates, unless you want to negotiate a 12ft chain link or 8 ft palisade fence. No card then ‘buzzer’ which means going to reception. Are Yank schools open to all at anytime?
Plane and train crashes are also bad.
More is done as well. Whole fleets of aircraft grounded…
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My boss actually managed to get an answer yesterday out of the WgExO about the whereabouts of my application for a new ID card.
Apparently, he was processing them, but got sidetracked and hasn’t got round to sending them off.
I gave him mine, in person, and he checked it in front of me. In August…
Apparently, he has a few to check, but needs to do them all at once. He also recalls that some of the applications were missing details but needs to go through them all first…
I bet he lost it.
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I’ll bet old Ted brings this up a few times in the coming weeks.
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Woah! They finally found the good guy with a gun!
Took them long enough.
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It would be interesting to know how often it happens, I’m sure by the law of probability it must be more often than we would think, but If it was a significant number I would expect the NRA to have a graph out on the news.
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And an annual ‘heroes parade’ fully paid for and endorsed by the NRA board members.
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GMG? That time work changed the mandatory training timeframes - and refreshed a load of modules with new content - and neither of these went in my favour. Meaning I have 6 courses to wade through today. And none of them count towards professional CPD!!!
^ and the workplace stress module has a Ultifail level of error - meaning it doesn’t record it’s been successfully completed!!
So you phone the course admin person on your fourth attempt who says “yeah. That’s a known fault”
Thanks. Didn’t impact on my stress levels at.
#irony
When people reply all to emails unnecessarily… had two tonight already.
Only ever acceptable if the reply all chain involves at least some reference to cheese. In honour and memory of a fantastic reply all event (around cancellation of Cyprus camp IIRC) that had something of a morale raising effect that I didn’t think was possible!
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GMG today: IT trainers who cannot train. Or use PowerPoint. Or Zoom.
Oh well. Only 5 hours to go.
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Accidentally on purpose didn’t log back in after lunch. I got “called away” for an “emergency”. As did my line manager who had exactly the same feelings on the course, it’s content and it’s delivery and helpfully engineered said “emergency”.
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Just spent a few hours driving to Devon for the week…the other half had developed this really annoying habbit…when following the sat nav and approaching a junction that im reliant on the inbuilt sat nav…she decides to play with the radio which changes turns off the sat nav screen…multiple rages happened.
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