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‘[T]he American West [is] a place of endless mythology and one unalterable fact: The region has become a self-immolation center for middle-aged American men.’


Rolling Stone examines a trend we’ve covered more and more on this blog: The remarkable suicide-by-gun epidemic of middle aged men in the American west.

Margaret Soltan, May 30, 2019 5:51PM
Posted in: guns

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4 Responses to “‘[T]he American West [is] a place of endless mythology and one unalterable fact: The region has become a self-immolation center for middle-aged American men.’”

  1. JND Says:

    White men! We’re No. 1.

  2. Margaret Soltan Says:

    JND: You guys have got to get more friends.

  3. charlie Says:

    UD, you’ve done a remarkable job of chronicling the gullet clogging of USAAmerica with Big Pharma inventory. How many of those white guys that used guns to off themselves, also were abusing prescriptions? Ian Long, who killed 13 people at a SoCal bar, had painkillers in his pocket from an Orange County pill mill. The side effects of anti depressants are suicidal impulses and massive mood swings. What civilized nation would create an enormous supply of guns, connected to a conveyor belt of mind altering synthetic chemicals?

  4. Margaret Soltan Says:

    charlie: Given how many of these men were alcoholics, it’s wild to consider that pills would in some cases have been piled on top of this…

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