Report: CDC records highest-ever number of gun-related deaths in 2020

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9. Collective Shrug.

The majority (>50%) of the yearly gun deaths are suicides, and access to firearms is a pretty fucking key indicator of success in a suicide attempt. All the SUCCESSFUL suicides I've personally known of used guns.

Yet suicides are barely part of the conversation when we discuss firearms - and when a celebrity like Wynona Judd kills herself, we have no idea if it was a gun or pills or she threw herself off the Tallahatchie Bridge. It's private, and unseemly to discuss.

Gun Laws are only going 1 way: towards liberalization, either via legislation in Red States or via judicial action in Blue States.

Gun sales are a self-reinforcing loop: I need a gun to protect myself from other people with guns.

We're living in Gunner America now. This is how Gunners want it. Nothing's going to change for a generation or 2.