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Lethal Weapons - Psychological Harm - Guns

Last Updated on Thursday, 31 December 2009 23:39 Written by Sue Wednesday, 04 November 2009 18:12

Direct Threats to Child
  • Tell child to choose weapon they want to be killed with
  • Threaten child's loved one with gun/death/harm
  • Threaten child with gun
  • Tells child he/she will have to shoot loved one
Indirect Threats of Bodily Harm
  • Spin chamber
  • Cleaning weapon and making threat
  • Insert clip or load rounds
  • Fire into air
  • Loading clip
  • Pull trigger to hear "click"
  • Russian Roulette
  • Point at child and make threats
  • Load and verbally threaten to harm
Threats to Others
  • Threatening neighbors
  • Threaten to kill self
  • Threaten to kill ex spouse's partner
  • Threatens to kill cops if they come to the door
  • Threatens to kill neighbor
  • Point at child's mother and threaten to kill her
  • Point at child's pet and threaten to kill it
Suicide Talk
  • Talks of committing suicide while cleaning or loading weapon
  • Points gun at head or chest
  • Tells child they will have to kill him/her
  • Points gun at body and says they will play Russian roulette
  • Many times puts one bullet in gun and spins chamber
  • May pull trigger and may not
This is not about gun control! It is about a family member (or anyone) intentionally using a lethal weapon to psychologically terrorize a child, between birth and 13 years old.

For instance, terrorizing a 9 year old with a weapon is not only immature on the part of the adult, but is traumatizing for a child who knows the destructive power of a weapon.

Adult alcoholics will relate these stories either when really drunk and mumbling or when struggling to stay sober in recovery.

Extreme trauma, created by the threats with lethal weapons, creates a "chi-ult," an adult who will remain at the same emotional age when the trauma took place, even as they mature into adulthood.  Repeat offenders are one example of a chi-ult.

Talk of suicide is traumatic for a child to hear, especially if the person is a loved one.
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