Making it easy
by digby
America is in the grip of a sustained rise in the suicide rate https://t.co/j7pL8l8LUH pic.twitter.com/ZyyyTbG8FI— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 1, 2016
This is a terrible problem. Someone on twitter pointed out that the rural west appears to be hardest hit. I’m sure there are a lot of reasons why that would be and maybe they’ve controlled for this in the studies. But gun culture is very big there. And people tend to be successful when they attempt suicide with one.
Update: I just found this…
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