Gun Control & RKBA

And far more conservatives died than liberals, because far more liberals got the covid vaccine.

We're in a Cold Civil War. We've been in one for a while, but the increasing polarization of politics means it might get a bit warmer. It would probably look like the Syrian Civil War as a worse-case scenario, but the clashes between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics are also a possibility; constant low-level domestic insurgencies as liberals and conservatives are forced to take ideological sides and group together for mutual defense and support. The boundaries between ideologies do not run along geographic lines anymore; we're all mixed together. We're also facing the (hopefully) last gasps of the Christian Nationalists, but that's part of the polarization issue.

Gun-related suicide numbers are always higher than gun-related homicide numbers, if memory serves. A third of households own at least one gun, so the pool of people with easy access to a gun is about a hundred million people. Guns are the preferred method of suicide for men, probably because it's faster, more certain, and more painless than other methods.

Middle-aged, rural men are particularly prone to suicide by gun, I think, because they have a tougher time dealing with the fact that their wives leave them because they're tired of being treated like shit, their jobs generally suck more with fewer opportunities for change, and their kids have left the house and moved on to more interesting parts of the country.

The number of gun-owners with potential suicidal depression is far larger than the number of gun-owners that are career criminals, so that's part of it as well.