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<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style='line-height:1.4'>according to this report, about 67% are suicides. about two in every three are suicides, saith the new york times. i read it over and over again. surely it is not misprint or a typo.<br/><br/>arguably murder could be done with an orange claw hammer or a silver one or a sears and roebuck crowbar or one from walmart but few who are out to do themselves in would choose a blunt instrument or even a very sharp one. <br/><br/>it seems that this story is not about violence in Amerika but about depression and despair.<br/><br/>It is Colonel Mustard in the basement on the rope.<br/><br/>my personal tendencies taken to some dysfunctional extreme are more likely self defense that self destruction. i can relate to going after the noisy good humour man but not him driving me to suicide with his monotune and sticky confections.<br/><br/>is the same logic used to defend abortion applicable here? in the absence of a gun the depressed will resort to rusty coat hangers and Drano?<br/><br/>r. crumb suggested that the society would make cyanide pies available for the terminally despairing. sort of like tide pods,. only crunchy? take two. take more.<br/><br/>I note of late that suicides are not condemned as they were in the society i grew up in. we would sympathize with families and shake our heads in disbelief and hope it was over. jourdain, williams, hemingway, cobain, boltzmann, cantor... <br/><br/>what is up?<br/><br/>if what the nytimes is saying is.tru<br/><br/><br/><br/></div>On 2018-06-12 02:08 , <a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Szoke, Ron via Peace-discuss</a> Wrote: <br><br><blockquote id='ntes-andriodmail-quote' style="margin:0px;padding-left:1ex;border-left:#ccc 1px solid">
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Mass shootings represent just a fraction of the nation’s gun violence.<br class="">
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