About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.

  • Cryptic Fawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    So let’s pretend we get rid of guns; now we have thousands of people that still wish they were dead. Some will find other ways to die.

    That’s the point the other poster was making. We gotta treat the core problems, not just the symptoms.

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      1 year ago

      Except the core poster says men have it worse when objectively women are attempting suicide more often.