About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

  • darkstar@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry maybe I’m a little triggered because this hits close to home, but seriously how the fuck can people claim “oh suicide is going up because guns”

    Are they fucking blind to how things are going in the world? I’m so fucking livid right now. “Suicide is because guns” fuck off

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      1 year ago

      Guns don’t cause suicide, but they make it much easier to successfully complete suicide

      Handguns especially

      But I doubt an increase in suicides this year from last year has anything to do with gun ownership rates

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      1 year ago

      Some people are hell bent on taking any step possible to prevent suicide besides being there for their friends. The answer to the suicide problem shouldn’t be suicide nets. The problem isn’t the means it’s the motivation.

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        1 year ago

        Hint to a friend that you might feel suicidal, now you have 10 fewer friends who “don’t want to deal with your shit”.

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      1 year ago

      Suicide number decreased when we switched the type of gas ovens used. Use to be that you could stuff up your windows and doors, turn on the oven, and slowly drift to sleep into death. Now you will just be slightly warmer. Of course, that is a supply side solution. And just like the republican war on drugs, supply side solutions never get rid of the underlying problem.