A wheelchair-bound gunman’s fitness to hold a firearms licence is being investigated, but his family say he was a good person and loving father who overcame adversity. Shayne Sime, 42, was shot dead by police on Sunday after firing more than 100 rounds from his Christchurch home, wounding a policeman and a neighbour and hitting buildings including a preschool in surrounding streets. Yesterday his family said: “We do wish to recognise and apologise to other people who were hurt and everyone else affected in the last few days.” It has emerged that Mr Sime, who suffered from a head injury and a spinal disorder that was wasting away his muscles, was drinking, was in a suicidal state and made threats to police. Mr Sime was a licensed firearms holder, despite criminal convictions in his past. Police were called out to his home in February after reports of a gun being fired on his property, which turned out to be a BB gun. Two shotguns and a high-powered .308 rifle were found in his house after Sunday’s confrontation. Gun control advocate Philip Alpers warned that New Zealand’s liberal gun laws and 10-year licence period meant the country was taking a gamble with gun owners. “Will this person succumb to all the normal human foibles including alcohol, depression, mental illness, some time during the next 10 years? And the licensing officer has to make that guess.” Mr Sime’s family described him yesterday as a much loved son and brother, a loving father of two sons and a good …
this question is for athiest
and or people who are not spiritual
or believe any spirituality at all (not saying all athiests are like that, because i know someone is gonna protest me saying that )
but for people who trully believe
this is it in life
i have to ask
when you were at your lowest of low
be it depression alcohol
or drug addiction
and had trully no one you could find to reach out a kind hand or kind word to help you thru your difficult time
Teens need acceptance. It is a fact!!! If there is no family life invovlement than teens will find it elsewhere. Teens will turn to alcohol, sex, gangs, other things to find that acceptance. I see it all clear now. Adults use the old copout…”You can teach your kids right from wrong but they will most likely do it anyways”. I totally disagree. If kids are invovled with their parents and family, they won’t have time for other things such as hanging out until 2-3 AM Friday or Saturday night getting drunk, and having sex. It is a shame that some parents only contact with their kids are 2-3 minute conversations on cell phones. OOOOOH don’t say I am not correct. It is true. Parents are more to blame on their kids actions than kids are.
In a fit of passion and anger, I wrote an “intervention” letter to a close family member telling them I am sick of their alcohol and drug use, and that it is the cause of all their problems. I also insinuated that they might be mentally ill, not in a mean way, in a serious way (I truly believe this). This family member has been in and out of prison and had problems all his life. The issue: the night after I mailed the letter, I talked to the family member, and we cleared the air and everything, and he is going to seek treatment, attend church etc. Now I am dreading the moment he gets the letter, because some of it comes off as mean. I have been dealing with his addiction for a long time, and I finally just had to open the floodgates, but now i’m concerned he will feel isolated, guilt-ridden, or depressed due to the letter. What can I do? Should I ask him not to open it? Or is it good for him to have in writing my condition for our relationship (I told him I would no longer accept him drinking around me, etc). I just don’t want to kick him when he’s down! He’s been suicidal in the recent past! Help!!!!
I hate to give any information that might cause shame on my family. We are very well known and I would like to keep this “under wraps” yet I feel the need to ask for help. Thanks for this anonymous method i can safely ask, but I need to know that the confidentiality will be present during the alcohol and drug treatment in des moines, ia. please help!
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It’s heartbreaking watching a loved one dig ever deeper into addiction or alcoholism, and families often feel impotent to do anything to effect change for the better. Lecturing, scolding and nagging have proven useless, and in some cases can make the problem worse, and too many families cling to a mistaken belief that only the addict can decide to get help when they’re ready.
Thankfully, that popular conception is false. Families can exert an powerful influence towards treatment, and once someone enters into drug treatment or rehab (even if they maintain that they don’t need it) those days of therapy, sobriety and introspection can do a lot to change one’s perspective, and statistics show that those people who were pressured into rehab do just as well as those people who went of their own accord.
In this article I write about my personal experiences with depression and about how I have learnt to cope and to even eradicate it. I am sure that I am not alone in the fact that I have regular periods of my life when I am depressed, but knowing this fact does not make it any easier for me. I hope you enjoy reading the article.
I have recently spoken to my parents about the subject of my depression. My mother has said that she thinks we have some kind of depression gene as most of our family suffer from similar symptoms.
