Is it possible to shoot yourself with a traumatic gun or kill someone. Is suicide the worst sin? Can I shoot myself

You can judge the urgency of a topic by the number of questions on a thematic forum. Another question is about the possibility of killing from a traumatic gun. The answer to it can be unambiguously positive, since various unforeseen situations happen in life, in which sometimes the most harmless things become weapons. However, it is desirable to look at the problem more broadly, and, first of all, to determine the contingent of those interested.

• It can be ordinary citizens, trying to protect themselves from possible troubles.
• Also, the question posed may be of interest to beginning criminal elements.
• Finally, people with suicidal tendencies may ask a similar question.

It is clear that the article is addressed primarily to the first category of citizens, so we will first talk about the legal use of traumatism.

Even before acquiring a traumatic weapon, the potential owner is obliged to think about the fact that its use could turn into a criminal article, even if there is no intent to violate the law. The use of self-defense weapons is so limited by the established requirements that in case of an accident it is quite difficult to prove the legitimacy of their actions.

The whole public in the opinion of traumatic weapons was divided into two categories. It is clear that these are those who advocate carrying weapons and against. Paradoxically, representatives of both categories show a certain “discontent” towards traumatism. If its supporters want to have a more powerful weapon on hand, since they believe that the current opportunities are not able to stop, for example, the attack of hooligans, then opponents consider injuries to be dangerous means of defense that can kill a person.

From laws to actual application

The purpose of traumatic weapons is defined as a means to protect the life and health, as well as the health of their loved ones. In practice, it turns out that the use of traumatic weapons in most cases for the owner turns into serious trouble.

Formally, a criminal case should be instituted on the fact of the murder or causing substantial injury. But for law enforcement agencies any use of weapons is fraught with hooliganism, so it is quite difficult to prove the legality of using injuries.

Unfortunately, there is no single step-by-step instruction for the use of OOP. It can only be developed independently, referring to the opinion of experts. Modern technology allows you to easily conduct audio or video recording. When a conflict is brewing, it is recommended that you turn on the recorder or camera. If there are several attackers, then their testimony will be more significant than yours.

In this case, one can only hope for stationary video cameras installed at shops, entertainment centers, entrances. It is necessary to record the fact that you loudly warned the hooligans about their intention to use weapons, and also fired one shot into the air. In real cases, such preventive measures are practically impossible to carry out, which does not play into the hands of the weapon owner.

An important role will be played by the moment when an aimed shot was fired. No matter how strange it may sound, the least problems will arise if you had to defend yourself after the attackers began to inflict beatings. Only in such a situation actions are regarded as self-defense. If the enemy does not use weapons and tries to get into the apartment or into the car, and also grabs you, then open fire will qualify as exceeding the necessary measures of self-defense. It is somewhat easier to comply with the law when the attacker swings a stick or other object. You can safely shoot at the time of a swing.

The use of injuries against women, children or persons with disabilities is almost always illegal. The exceptions are attacks by an armed group of adolescents.

Mortal wounds

If it is proved that the owner of the weapon deliberately aimed the attacker in the head, then there can be no talk of any self-defense. These actions will be regarded as intent, even if the injury was caused by accident. That's why when choosing a trauma, accuracy is considered a determining parameter. The main task is not to get into the temple, eyes, neck.

Traumatic weapons have a very deceptive property. If, when a bullet enters a body part covered with clothing, a person may not even feel pain, then a shot in the temple or in the eye will probably become fatal. For these reasons, the government decided to equate injuries with firearms, introducing a number of restrictive measures.

Tragic consequences can occur when wounded in the stomach or even in the leg. A rubber ball that is able to enter a couple of centimeters into the body will easily interrupt the artery and a person will die from blood loss. The most unpleasant thing is that it is difficult to predict the consequences of a shot from a traumatism. For the same model of a pistol or revolver, cartridges with a wide range of energy are produced, and, as you know, the shock characteristics of a bullet depend on it.

Traumatic weapon for suicide

We would never have thought that a certain part of the article would have to be devoted to people with suicidal tendencies. It is difficult enough to reflect on the question of whether it is possible to shoot yourself from a traumatic gun. But, plunging into the realities of life, we note that the phenomenon of suicide was, is and will be. I would not want to turn an analytical article into a suicide instruction, but we emphasize that traumatic weapons are not the best way to take their own lives.

On the human body there are many different points, the impact on which can lead to disruption of a certain group of organs. By the way, acupressure is based on this, because exposure can give a positive effect. It’s quite possible to kill a person from a pneumatic weapon, and the power of the trauma is much higher.

If you shoot at the temple, then in 90% of cases this will lead to death, since the bone in the temporal region is the thinnest, and the bullet will damage the brain. However, there have been cases when the "self-arrows" survived. Bullets passed along the bone of the cranium and practically did not touch the brain. Can such a combination of circumstances be called successful? A person after being wounded for life will remain disabled.

Many suicides choose trauma as the most affordable means. Having seen the production video, they mistakenly think that death will occur instantly and without torment. In most cases that are officially recorded, death after a shot in the head from an injury occurred within a few hours. It is impossible to imagine what kind of torment a person experiences. The statistics of deaths shows that I achieve my goal of suicide in 50% of cases.

How to protect yourself

We see that shooting from traumatic weapons is full of paradoxical consequences.

• On the one hand, there is no guarantee of death in the event of suicide.
• On the other hand, by an absurd accident, from a victim you can turn into a killer.

For those who have decided to protect themselves and their loved ones with the help of trauma, the question arises sharply about what to do if you had to use weapons.

No matter how the conflict ends, it is necessary to report it to the police. It is important that you initiate the call of the police. Many lawyers, based on judicial practice, argue that the status of the victim will be the one who first turns to law enforcement. Often there are times when a citizen resisted and left, and the attacker turned to an ambulance and then to the police. Moreover, in circulation, he indicates that it was the owner of the weapon who was the first to attack. Justice may triumph, but it will take a lot of effort.

Russian law provides for punishment for failure to provide medical care. So that you are not accused of this, call an ambulance for a person, even if he recently attacked you.

It would be nice to have witnesses. Naturally, not every outsider agrees to wait for the police. The best option is to take contact details. It is also recommended that you rewrite the numbers of nearby cars. They may contain people or the recorder may be included. And the last, but not least, advice - hire yourself a good lawyer.

Does the Church consider suicide a more terrible sin than murder? What will happen to the coffin with those who refused to sing, although they were in a daze of reason? How to pray for a person who has committed suicide due to severe pain or fear of abuse? The priest Nikolai PETROV answers.

- In the world, up to a million suicides a year, and this number is growing. Why?

There have always been suicides. But the more traditional the society, the less often it could have crossed such an unnatural way out of the situation for a person. Now the problem is that a certain "culture", a "tradition" of suicide has arisen. And it seems to me that the more this is said, the easier it is for a person from the "risk zone" to do this. I wonder if there are statistics that more are committed on the day of “suicide prevention”?

There are closed people who do not want to complain. Their suicide becomes a thunderbolt to others. Is it possible to prevent such a development of events?

Suicide can be committed by a willful decision, or it can be the result of some kind of deformation of the human person. In the first case, the point is often not the “bad” life of a person, but the impossibility to change something: to correct a mistake, repay a debt (for example, a general who lost the battle and lost the entire army), etc. A person simply considers himself not entitled to live. He condemns himself to death. It is impossible to prevent this. One can only remind everywhere that such a statement of the question is impossible for a Christian. If a certain mental change occurs in a person that he doesn’t want to live, you can always notice that no matter how “closed” he may be.

- And how to help a person who complains about life and thinks about suicide out loud?

If a person tells his intention to everyone, and not just someone exclusively trusted and close, then this, according to many doctors and psychologists, shows the need to attract attention, and not a real desire to part with life. All the more love is required to give such a person.

People, including Christians, are often worried about why suicide is the worst sin if a person commits it with grief, in despair. He is already so bad, he is already suffering, and then there is the worst punishment after such suffering. Where is the mercy of God?

Suicide "according to the degree of sinfulness" is not worse than murder, for example. The problem is that a person does not have the opportunity to repent. According to the teachings of the Church, repentance beyond the grave is impossible. If the killer did not repent, he will face the same fate as the suicide. Only I would not call it just "punishment." This is a consequence of that difficult spiritual state of a person when he puts himself in the place of God and decides who lives and who does not. Having become a “God”, he remains without God, who, with all His pity for him and mercy, cannot help him. Despair is also the result of his free actions, his wrong attitudes ...

Suicide is always a lack of faith. Whatever the suffering and horrors in life, faith in God's providence and His Love can save a person.

They say that you can funeral and then remember in the church the suicides who were in a daze of reason. Diocesan administrations usually ask for help from a dispensary or from a psychotherapist. Is it true that the Church’s approach is gradually softening, that there is more and more understanding, that there are many situations when a person is poorly responsible for himself?

If a person commits suicide in a state where he cannot answer for himself, this is another matter. If, for example, he got drunk and committed suicide, and did not think about it before, then he will have to answer for the sin of drunkenness, in which, incidentally, he also does not have time to repent.

If suicide is the result of a mental illness or clouding of reason, then, of course, God will judge this person, “considering” the absence of his free will in this action, regardless of whether he was buried in church. The church does not decide whether a person will be saved, but only whether it is possible to pray for him in the temple. To do this, you only need to know that he did not voluntarily take his own life and thereby excommunicated himself from the Church. There is nothing to soften. It is simply pointless to bury a person who has refused the life given by God, and therefore from faith. The doctor’s words are the strongest evidence in this case, although it must be understood that even mentally ill people with a diagnosis can die consciously and without any influence from their illness, and the funeral service “will not add anything to them”. And people who refused to funeral may well be "innocent" of the sin of suicide - then, of course, their God will accept accordingly. That is, the funeral service is an indicator of the Church’s attitude to this sin, and not at all a “guarantee” or, on the contrary, an “exception” of a person’s salvation.

There are cases when the obsessive desire to commit suicide is removed, for example, with drugs that stimulate peripheral blood circulation. Just eliminate the oxygen starvation of the brain - and the person himself does not understand why he wanted to kill himself. Indeed, among those who are considered suicidal God-fighters, there may be many such “oxygen-starving”. How often does a priest have to advise, besides repentance, also a medical examination?

The cases of oxygen starvation do not add anything to the position of the Church. We must fight not so that more suicides are allowed to funeral, but so that there are fewer suicides. Therefore, of course, in the light of new knowledge about oxygen starvation, I am ready to send all people who have thoughts of suicide for unknown reasons to be sent for a medical examination.

- And if a person kills himself due to severe physical pain?

He can count on God's condescension, but still this testifies to his lack of faith and weakness, and does not remove the sin of suicide from him, just as if he had renounced Christ because of pain at the time of torment. But weakness and conscious deity are two different things. Funeral, if we are talking about this, they will not, but praying for it will be much easier.

St. Basil the Great described the suicide of virgin girls who knew that the barbarians who took their city would abuse them and break their vows. The church considers them not suicides, but confessors. Of course, today such a situation for Russia is rather speculation, but specialists working with crisis situations say that at the time of everyday harassment (for example, a drunk friend in an apartment) a woman grabs a knife and often shouts “don't come, I'll stab myself” than "Do not come, I will kill you." And it happens that cuts. How will the Church approach her if she dies?

In general, everything depends on what a person thinks, and on the reasons for his action. If someone kills himself because of fear of abuse, this has nothing to do with the sin of suicide. The main thing is why she did not want this abuse. To keep clean for Christ, like those girls, is one thing. Afraid of pain or consequences - this is different. Or maybe she even considered herself entitled to kill herself in another situation, but here she used this tool - this is the third, and quite equating such a woman with other suicides. And if she is not a believer at all, then there is no difference.

A man who does not believe in God, no matter what he does - how to judge him? - inadequate in essence ... His "problems" when meeting with God will lie in a completely different, and not in suicide. If you do not say that for successive atheists, suicide, according to their own estimates, is the most logical way to part with life.

I was born in an ordinary family. Studied without triples. But my parents decided it was better to send me to a boarding school. The boarding school obviously didn’t benefit me: a few years later my parents saw that it was better to transfer me to a regular school, but it was already too late. I became a completely different child: cheeky, cheeky and rude. When he returned to his former school, the teachers did not recognize me. I skipped classes, spent time, spent time in the gym. If he was in the classroom, then he plucked them or played cards. I was always attracted to older children, and with my peers it was uninteresting. Parents were regularly called to school. But no one could influence me - neither a stern father, nor a kind, loving mother.
At 15, I was kicked out of the house. But that did not upset me. I was strong, proud and confident. He saw his future strong and carefree. I decided that in this life I will achieve everything myself, whatever it costs me (at that time I did not even suspect what it would cost me).

Gathering a troika of my own kind, I organized a criminal group, which became under the wing of one of the Kiev "authorities." Soon we broke away and started racketeering independently. Our group was small, but very strong. The people in her were desperate and dedicated. It was a family in the truest sense of the word. Could put life for each other. Each was unique and talented. Any crime was clearly planned to the smallest detail. Over time, I realized that it was time for extortion to end. By that time, businessmen began to contact the police. Many went to jail. Whole groups fell. I was well versed in the intricacies of the law and tried to find a way to earn more money without going to court. We involved organizations, individuals in various scams. A whole chain of schemes was built up, following which a person was left without money, and at the same time sincerely believed that we, not only had nothing to do with it, but also wanted to help him.
My impunity gave me tremendous confidence. By that time, I already had everything I was striving for, but I was not satisfied with this, I wanted more. We began to rob and engage in robbery. For me it was so natural and normal that I even experienced great pleasure.

Often had to deal with people related to the shadow economy. They never went to law enforcement. But, on the other hand, they had huge finances to “order” us, and this was more dangerous than any police. Many times they could just kill me. But each time I stayed alive and thought it was a gangster “fart”. God, glory to you that you already kept my life!

I was a supporter of the fact that since life was given once, you need to try everything in it. Restaurants, women, alcohol, grass no longer brought satisfaction .. Everything became ordinary and gray. It was then that I decided to try heroin. I did not suspect that from this time a new stage in my life began. Finding myself in opium slavery, I still naively believed that I could stop at any moment, reassuring myself that I had tremendous willpower. At that time, many of my friends, the same “strong-willed” athletes, despite their strong will, could no longer stop. I thought that I am stronger than them, and I will have everything differently, if you just want to. But I didn’t have a desire to quit, I liked it, and I continued to inject. I tried all the drugs that could be bought in Kiev. The consequences of drug use did not take long: something seemed to me, and I began to behave very aggressively, beat people. In this state, I ended up in a psychiatric clinic, where I was diagnosed with the 12th degree of violence, schizophrenia. I stayed in the hospital for about a month. This is very good, I thought, with this diagnosis they could not put me in jail, the maximum was to prescribe compulsory treatment for a period of 6 months. And this is a mere trifle.

Years passed, I continued to inject, Hopes for my own strength were less and less. By that time, I had already tried repeatedly to be treated in various clinics of our city and realized that I was in slavery, from which there is no deliverance. Drugs no longer brought any pleasure. I used them only in order to return to a normal, so to speak, state. It was even hard to think until I shot, and when I shot, I could think for three. Over the previous 10 years, there were only 6 months in which I did not use drugs. But then I started drinking so hard that many said that it would be better if I injected. I almost had cirrhosis and a lot of chronic sores. By that time, “pierced” everything that I had, except for the apartment. My wife left, my parents refused. There were no friends anymore - who was killed, who died of drugs. I was dying. I tried to shoot myself several times, but nothing worked. When once again he committed suicide, climbed into the bath and opened the artery, then to my surprise there was almost no blood flow. Then I cut even deeper, but there was practically no blood flow. It was very strange, because there is pressure in the artery, and even with a small incision, the blood should flow strongly. I was scared: I did not want to live, but I could not commit suicide. I put up with the fact that I was a drug addict and decided to inject myself until I died. I hated everything and everyone, and most of all myself. Anger and rage filled the heart. For many years of such a life, nothing human remained in me. Life was completely destroyed.

I often found myself wondering why I live and what my purpose is, I always felt that there was something different and unlike what I know. But where it is different and how to find it, I did not know, although I was looking for it, but it was not visible where I needed it.
I was in the balance between life and death, and then the Lord came. At that time I had already heard about the Freedom rehabilitation center. During the next treatment in the hospital on Smolenskaya Street, Maxim, a rehab center employee, came into our room and left his business cards.

Arriving at the center, I saw a woman and two guys. Subsequently, I found out that these were brothers, former drug addicts, and sister Tatyana. I remember the brothers vaguely, as if in a fog, because the day before I had gone through a 20-day course of treatment in two days. The number of drugs that I introduced into myself exceeded the capabilities of my body several times. I was purple. The woman seemed very strange and unusual to me. Her eyes shone, and her eyes pierced me, but at the same time love and warmth emanated from her. I have never met such people in my life. Having examined me with an x-ray, she persistently offered to pray for me. Thank God for such sisters! Then for a while I called her godmother. They did not have to explain that I am a sinner. I myself understood this very well, I was even amazed at how the earth generally carries me. Therefore, I immediately repented of my sins to God. Then they began to pray for me. I was very surprised by their prayer. I have not heard such a prayer before. At that moment, the power of God came upon me, and I began not just to cry, but to sob. I cried for several days: imagine - the Lord delivered me in one second from one prayer from what I suffered for many years. I had a crazy breakdown, but when I got home, I lay down and fell asleep. Waking up in the morning, I did not believe that I was sleeping. I jumped up, scalded, a force came from somewhere, and rushed off to the center. I had a bunch of questions in my head that I wanted answers to. There they told me that God forgave and loves me. On the one hand, it pleased me, but on the other, it was not clear how such a sinner as I could forgive, and even more so, love, the Lord God Himself. I learned that when Jesus was crucified, the first who went with Him to Heaven was a robber, hanging next to him. Later, I learned about the past of some brothers from the drug center and realized that I got home.

So began my rehabilitation, or rather a new life. The Lord miraculously healed my cirrhosis, a sick stomach and other chronic diseases without a single pill. God not only freed me from the slavery of sin, but completely changed me. He changed my worldview, and most importantly, he freed me from slavish thinking, from rotten thieves' “concepts”, according to which I lived all these years. Jesus broke everything old to smithereens and gave me His mind and completely different concepts, not similar to the previous ones. Now I am new, all the same has passed. God performed miracle after miracle. Relations with relatives and friends have been restored - I am accepted and loved. There was no hope of rebuilding my marriage, which was defiled and completely destroyed. But the Lord is faithful and strong, He returned my wife, and now we are together again.

God thank you! Jesus gave a desire to learn that was not there before. The Lord healed my soul and filled my heart with love for people. My friends, who were afraid of me and walked around the tenth road, can’t understand what happened to me, they don’t recognize me. I testify to them of the Good News.

There is not enough paper to describe everything that the Lord has done in my life in such a short time. And I really devoted my life to Jesus, decided to follow Him to the end, wherever He leads me.

Now I myself work in a rehabilitation center and serve the same as I was myself. I boldly go into the dens and speak of salvation and that the drug has no power over me. In my life I have tried literally everything and now I know for sure that there is nothing better than the Lord Jesus Christ!