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I hate to contribute to it going off topic, but it really is a sad postscript that what could have been an impulsive action as a teenager had such tragic afterm
by throwaway5752 8y ago
I hate to contribute to it going off topic, but it really is a sad postscript that what could have been an impulsive action as a teenager had such tragic aftermath. Totally separately from reading this I was recently reminded that more than 20,000 people kill themselves with guns in the US per year. And looking this statistic up to confirm it, I learned that people in households with guns were more likely to die by suicide than those without by a factor of 3-4 (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199208133270705 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199208133270705 via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States#Suicides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...)