[fabsroman]

TBO,

You answered my question pretty well, but I guess there just isn't any evidence from what is in the article that this guy ever told the Police he was thinking about suicide and he was planning on doing it with a gun.

What I got from the article is that the police got a tip from somebody (i.e., no psych eval), they went to see this guy, and they took his guns while they were detaining him. Maybe I am reading it wrong

If somebody is suicidal, why don't they commit the person instead of letting him go.

My other peev is that a suicidal person has plenty of means to commit suicide.

1. 2 foot length of rope from a hardware store.

2. Taking the car as fast as it will go and just cranking the wheel in traffic.

3. Jumping from a high rise.

4. Jumping in front of a train.

5. Jumping in front of a bus.

6. Leaving the gas stove on and either lighting that last cigarette or dying of afixiation (sp.).

I could make the list a mile long, but I think you get my point. There are a million ways for a person to commit suicide. Based on the facts we do have, even assuming that there might have been a psych eval, this guy's guns have been confiscated for three years and he is still breathing. Why don't they just give them back.

Last but not least, the media in this county, Montgomery County, is so liberal it is pathetic. Just as Cal Sibley said above. So, if there were any justification for the police to keep these firearms, I am pretty sure they would have printed it. I was actually shocked to see this article in the paper, but the paper might just be trying to startle the locals because of the 41 gun collection.

At the end of the day, I try to put myself in the other person's shoes. I would be pissed if somebody called the police department, said I was suicidal, and the police would come over here and take all my guns for 3 years. I would be pissed as hell if they put a single scratch in any of them, but as we all know, the police department isn't liable for negligence, just gross negligence which is very tough to prove. So, I would have to eat the scratches and wouldn't get reimbursed for them by the police department.

It just burns me up that all somebody has to do is make an anonymous phone call and my guns could be gone for 3 years. Then again, I don't think I would wait three years to file a law suit.