The Growing Risk of Suicide in Rural America
10th March 2015
In rural America, where there are more guns, fewer people, and fewer doctors than in the urban U.S., young people are at particular risk of suicide.
Whereas in big city slums, where there are a lot more people, a lot more doctors, and just as many guns (just not legal ones), young people are particularly at risk of homicide. But that’s not part of the Crustian Narrative, so you won’t find any mention of it in the Atlantic.
“Suicide is in many ways the oft-ignored part of gun tragedy in America, the part that few talk about, especially those who resist any efforts to decrease access to guns,” writes Frederick Rivara, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington, in an editorial accompanying the study. He points out that 86 percent of suicide attempts using guns end in death, compared to 2 percent of attempts using drugs.
Don’t you just love that phrase, ‘gun tragedy in America’? I guess a gun is like the One Ring of Power, inevitably corrupting anyone who falls within it’s baleful influence. Wouldn’t have anything to do with the fact that the government is rapidly making the Land of Opportunity into the Land of Poverty and Dependency, oh no….