… that “gun suicide drives overall suicide rates and make[s] clear that reducing access to firearms is a critical element in helping prevent suicide.” States where everyone’s got guns in all the rooms in the house dominate – surprise! – all the national suicide numbers.
As in: “AW FUCK,” says a sixtyish MAGA guy in Anaconda-Deer Lodge County**, as he watches some woman mop the floor with his hero on national tv. “WHY GO ON.” Grabs the Glock on the dinner tray.
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** “This is a norm — people die by suicide,” said [child psychiatrist Kelly Irons,] who moved to Anaconda in 2019. “Everyone has someone in their family here who has died by suicide. That boggles my mind. That’s not the same as other places.”
[Lauren] Bolton, an Anaconda native who has been public health director since 2022, said the community has long accepted suicide as a local peril.
“I grew up knowing that we had high suicide rates,” she said. “There’s a little bit of desensitization. It’s something that we always knew happened.”
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Acceptance, norm, desensitization – get the picture? They love guns more than themselves. Hell, maybe they got a lil romance going with suicide. Be just like the government to try to break it up.