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Does this mean I can stop stuffing my face with olives now (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] Liz@midwest.social 16 points 9 months ago

The suicide rate obviously has multiple contributing factors, but access to firearms is absolutely one of them. There's multiple studies on this that will come up in a quick web search. In general, access to anything that makes suicide more impulsive increases the suicide rate. I say this as a person who absolutely believes that access to firearms should be the default state for those that want it.