Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says

https://lemmy.world/post/8340391

Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says - Lemmy.World

Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report

ITT gun nuts immediately defending tools designed to quickly kill

downvoters are presumably said gunhead lobotomites

Apparently it is “partisan clickbait” because it talks about a real issue in the world and that rustles their fucking jimmies apparently.
The real issue is that assisted suicide is basically illegal in the USA…you turned it into a gun issue…

Its a gun issue because most people see that as the “easiest” way of achieving it because they haven’t done even cursory basic research into effective suicide methods.

Just because it is illegal doesn’t mean a gun is the only option.

Guns are used in dumb fits of passion because it is easy and at-hand for a lot of people.

Wow…yes it’s the guns fault, not that our society is so fucked that people are offing themselves like crazy…naa it’s the gun doing it. The fuck outta here.
I didn’t say it was the guns fault. Even if we fixed a boatload of societal problems, guns still don’t help these situations, and you’d still have people using them because they’re available.
They do, but they are not the root cause, and focusing on them is a distraction.
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