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f1del1us t1_jefylqr wrote

Reply to comment by csamsh in We’re Washington Post journalists who spent the past months investigating how the AR-15 became a symbol of the gun control debate, political identity and mass shootings. Ask us anything. by washingtonpost

Why are we so focused on the guns that people use to kill each other, when the vast majority are used by people to kill themselves?

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csamsh t1_jeg446f wrote

That’s a fanfuckingtastic question. Better yet- why are people killings themselves? It’s almost like there’s a mental health epidemic that could be quelled if we had easy, maybe even universal access to mental healthcare.

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f1del1us t1_jeg494d wrote

Then I wonder what would happen to all the murder rates if you started taking care of people and the suicides went way down….

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csamsh t1_jeg5wff wrote

This idea might be a little out there, but maybe if we took care of our people, they'd do less killing. I could be wrong.

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