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

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Good job in taking a serious issue and putting an unnecessary partisan spin on it, CNN. The issue of guns needs to be sidelined when talking about issues as serious as suicide.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/suicide-rate-by-country

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21 points

I don’t really see the problem with elderly people who decide they want to check out. If we allowed medically assisted death, they could die with dignity.

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Most of it is caused by depression, not terminal illness.

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21 points

Still need the option to check out on your own terms.

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I imagine in many cases depression caused by their failing bodies and inability to lead a happy life due to it. That and their partner probably recently dying.

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Doesn’t change my opinion

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If Republicans actually gave a shit about mental health maybe we wouldn’t have so many gun suicides.

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Or suicides generally.

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So suicide is a republican problem hey.

Get a grip. Stop using every topic to gain political points, it’s disingenuous.

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They’re the ones who keep saying “it’s not a gun problem it’s a mental health problem” and then doing fuck all to improve mental health, so yeah.

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Yeah but then they’d have even more mental gymnastics to do with bootstraps and all that

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Suicide isnt reported in many places, because it is a social and religious taboo. For example the greek orthodox church still refuses to bury people who killed themselves(and 99% of greeks used to be christian orthodox, though atheism is becoming more popular nowadays).

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Do they still refuse to bury unbaptized kids as well?

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Only if they were allowed to bugger them first.

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Suicide is a problem around the world, guns or not. Focus on the issue, not click-bait titles.

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Yet it’s a huge issue because of guns in the US.

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It has been repeatedly and conclusively demonstrated that means reduction (which the pro-gun community won’t allow) and survivability (which guns don’t have) play an extremely important role in suicide prevention.

Guns are absolutely part of the issue. Unfortunately, the pro-gun community prioritises sweeping gun deaths under the rug to maintain their profits and possessions over actually protecting anyone.

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