[FPSPACE] JimO's article..a question about it (Guns in space)

[Peter Pesavento]

JimO:

 

Can you expand upon the following paragraph with more comments?  I haven't
heard this before.  What time frame did this event take place with a
threatened suicide?  Before 2000?  After 2000?

 

Quote below:

 

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Perhaps a year or so ago, nobody would have raised an eyebrow over "trained
spacefarers" being able to grab a gun at will, for whatever reason they felt
like. But in the wake of the past year's tragic violence
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20167011/>  involving professional astronauts
and space center veterans, and in light of stories now surfacing over
psychological crises on past missions (including one threatened suicide that
the mission commander took very seriously), the open access to such lethal
hardware needs reappraisal. 

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Thanks in advance.