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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums538.com's Interactive Gun Death Statistics Chart
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/It really helps keep things in perspective. Give it a try...
edit: Gun* ... Typing one handed is hard and slow...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Edit to add: Now that I've seen the site... very good link.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)moriah
(8,311 posts)People are pointing out Trunp rescinding the order about shrinks signing off before people who are on disability for mental illnesses that could cause psychosis or suicidal ideation would save lives. Maybe not the lives of schoolchildren, but still, lives.
But of course Trump overturned a great way to help prevent suicides at least in some. The trouble is it's helping a population he'd rather eliminate itself.
GeoWilliam750
(2,522 posts)The suicide rate by gun for while males is about 3-5 times that of other races. One wonders why this might be.
For white males, the suicide rate by gun is about 7 times that of the homicide rate, accounting for nearly half of gun deaths in the United States. A gun in the home seems to be far more dangerous to its owner than to any potential intruder.