As I’ve previously mentioned, I’m an attorney who works for the Federal Government. One of the things that the Federal Government emphasizes is employee training; both in terms of training to better perform or jobs, as well as safety-related training that doesn’t really relate to our jobs. In the interest of preventing suicides, our entire office was recently made to attend a 90 minute long suicide prevention class. This class was given by a person (an attorney, coincidentally) who attempted suicide by overdose and survived, and now teaches and writes about suicide prevention. During the class, the instructor made a variety of anti gun comments with which I found myself in disagreement. Since she invited us to contact her with any feedback or questions, I sent her an email that evening after work, and thought I would post it and some further comments here: Read the rest of this article »



