… finds with ease the .40-caliber semiautomatic pistol her parents told her to use in case of an intruder. (The household has ten more weapons locked in a safe, but this one is in a bedroom, loaded.) She kills herself while her mother checks her email in an adjacent room.
Her mother says “she won’t live with guns in her home again.”
Remember 21 year old Tyler Hilinski. His college roommates had an AR-15 all ready for him.
August 26th, 2019 at 4:34PM
It doesn’t really matter whether the gun is a .40 semi or an old, single-shot .22 derringer. A point-blank shot to the head is fatal most of the time, regardless of whether it comes from the media’s scary-gun-of-the-week or not.
Inquiring minds would like to know whether Aurra was taking prescribed anti-anxiety or anti-depressant medicine.
August 26th, 2019 at 5:17PM
tp: Yeah, I kept the gun type in just to lend the telling some detail. As to whether she was on meds – it sounds from the article as though she was not.
August 27th, 2019 at 12:17PM
I wonder whether in fact the reporter did not elide that rather important detail. Practically any student who exhibits anxiety or depression is sent to a pill-rolling Dr. Feelgood pronto.
August 27th, 2019 at 1:43PM
tp: I suspect her benighted New Mexico school district hasn’t even gotten to the pills stage yet.