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Gun violence is a major influencer of life expectancy in America. The average American would live a couple of years longer without gun deaths (including suicide
by jrumbut 3y ago
Gun violence is a major influencer of life expectancy in America. The average American would live a couple of years longer without gun deaths (including suicide and accidents).
https://time.com/5471069/guns-life-expectancy/ https://time.com/5471069/guns-life-expectancy/
The reason that it has such an outsized effect is because it tends to happen early in life.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoOh right, suicide. But wouldn't at least a portion of those suicides still be suicides without guns?
- orwin 3y agoNot successful ones. The issue with not having an available loaded gun is that you have to plan your death.
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoObtaining a gun is planning in the exact same way walking to the top of a roof or grabbing a fist full of pills is planning.
- orwin 3y agoRaking a fistful of pill fail often, with little consequences (unlike a bullet, who might fail but consequences are painful). Jumping is rare, the only case I know of was someone with bone cancer who suffered a lot (I'm kinda remember her but I was very young when she died). Bullets are a common way to go for people with hunting background. There is a reason why 'revolving credits' were called 'revolver credits' in my area before they were basically outlawed (I'm from the countryside).
- WendyTheWillow 3y agoPeople do kill themselves with guns, nobody was debating that...