If we consider gun suicide as a kind of gun violence, and i absolutely think it is, if you look at the demographics of who commits guns, white middle aged men. Whitea white, middle aged american men are something like 75 to 80 % of gun suicides on the planet. And any actuwary can tell you this, as people hit middle age, and then they face either a difficult medical diagnosis, a ic episode of depression, divorce, bankruptcy, lay off,. loss of a job, bankruptcy, loss of a home, the chances of their shooting themselves get, like, expedential higher. People generally don't commit murder and self harm out of likeber and joy and
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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