least in America, death by gunshot is most commonly a result of suicide. In other words, a person living here is more likely to use a gun to kill himself than someone else. This is an incredibly important point—and not true of most other places, by the way. The suicide piece of the equation makes the whole gun violence conversation trickier, because we really need to have at least two separate dialogues: one about what drives violence against others and one that asks why people seek to end their own lives. These threads are quite distinct, but they get consolidated when the focus is on the
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