I think pmc is right on. Having first hand experience with the detritis, he has a much better grasp on what 'really is' than you do.
That he, like most "journalists", was being paid by the word ?
I have been traumatized at times watching forum suicides.
All you need is a Keyboard and the internet.
My brother tried many times to kill himself, and finally succeeded using his car and a garden hose. While I’m sad and disappointed that he did so, I’m glad he didn’t help add to the gun homicide statistic.Suicide by guns vs lives saved by having guns. I wonder if anyone has ever looked at that.
If you want to kill yourself, you will find a way.
I have been traumatized at times watching forum suicides.
You've taken contempt of this excuse of gun control measures as a lack of
A swing and a miss.
If the point is that high stress times lead to higher suicides, then whoever wrote it didn’t spend a single second to actually do any research. There have been numerous studies showing that during times of extreme stress, like war, suicides go down. It’s not so much high stress in general, it’s the type of stress. Dealing with brothers in arms and large numbers of suicides, I’ve come to find that isolation/lack of belonging, and shame to be some of the highest reasons for suicide. I’m sure there is data to back up my antidotal evidence. Times of stress, like war, 9/11, and so on, actually bring communities together. Data seems to point to it lowering suicide in these instances. Lock downs, loss of jobs, and the separation from community seem to inflame suicide rates. Shame is a killer, which leads to isolation, which leads to despair. A deadly combo.
I understand this hitting a nerve with you. Suicide usually hits a nerve with anyone involved. Near or far.
