A Connecticut man was placed on life support at Jersey Shore University Medical Center after he attempted suicide at the same New Jersey gun range where police said a 30-year-old Lakewood man died by shooting himself in the chest during the previous week.

Police said they found the latest victim, a 36-year-old male from Stamford, Conn., at the Shore Shot Pistol Range on Airport Road at around 6 p.m. on Friday.

The Connecticut man sustained a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head but he was still breathing when airlifted to the medical center in Neptune after being treated by EMS workers at the scene, said Sgt. Greg Staffordsmith of the Lakewood Police Department.

Lakewood police, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office and the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office will conduct an investigation into the incident.

The second reported self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Shore Shot range in about a week followed the Saturday, Sept. 6 suicide of a 30-year-old Lakewood man who died shooting himself in the chest, police said.

A 9-year-old New Jersey girl killed a shooting range instructor in Arizona last month, while she was firing an Uzi automatic machine gun.

Although no real effort has been made by President Barack Obama and the Democrats to significantly alter America’s gun laws, the firearms lobby has inspired a panic among Second Amendment zealots in the wake of mass shootings, such as the Connecticut elementary school where 20 children died.

As a result, new laws have been approved that allow gun owners to carry weapons in the open and in places where firearms simply make no sense. An Idaho professor shot himself in the foot while teaching a room full of students just weeks after a new law went into effect prohibiting gun bans in state university classrooms.

Obama and the Democrats did seek to make the background check law signed by President Ronald Reagan apply to everyone who buys a gun, because there is a massive loophole in the legislation named for former White House press secretary James Brady. Brady took a bullet in the head oin the same December day in 1981 when Reagan was shot by John Hinkley.

Currently, 33 states do not restrict private, intrastate sales of firearms at gun shows in any manner while federal law does not require private sellers to perform a background check on buyers. That has allowed large numbers of firearms to get into the hands of criminals and mentally unstable people.

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