This is why people want background checks and to reel in 'private sales'.
Controversial megachurch pastor Rick Warren revealed via Twitter on Thursday that his 27-year-old son Matthew committed suicide with an unregistered weapon that he had purchased online. According to the Daily Mail, Warren, who has been tweeting regular updates about his grieving process, said that he forgives whoever sold his son the weapon.
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Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson Jim Amormino confirmed that the gun’s serial number has been scratched off, a crime under California law, as is selling a firearm without performing a background check.
Warren has tweeted that he has already forgiven the person who sold his son the gun and hopes they repent.
Warren reported his son had killed himself during an intense 'wave of despair' which his son battled for many years.
I really don't like Rick Warren, I think he is full of it and he makes money misleading people while being an insufferable bigot. I'd be happy if he was swallowed in a sink hole.
HOWEVER I am also, though, 'feeling' like, despite what i think of him, he did support his son and tried to get him the help he needed and I imagine he is truly devastated. Who wants to experience this or live with such a thing?
I - as foul as I am - would not wish this on anyone and I feel truly sorry for his loss.
We do need to SERIOUSLY tighten gun laws up.
Making this sort of thing available on the internet is the essence of irresponsibility and really, criminal negligence.
It is totally probable that his son would be alive now if a background check had been done.
Plain and simple.
And really, WTF is the problem with that?
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