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There’s that, but there’s also drug overdoses, traffic fatalities, health issues, suicide, violent crime…
The US is a dangerous place in many ways, it would seem.
And a lot of those things you listed are simply because life kind of sucks here
From an outsider’s POV (I’m Canadian) I see 2 main causes: private for-profit healthcare and almost unlimited access to guns.
Fixing those two would go a long way towards changing the death rate.
Well, there’s that, and also
- Having to work really long hours to try to make ends meet
- Being underpaid
- No or minimal time off work (vacation and sick time both, and sometimes even medical leave doesn’t protect you all that much)
- Poor worker’s rights in general
- Crushing cost of housing
- Crushing cost of education
- Food and everything else you need to live is getting more expensive all the time, and the quality often goes down
- Poor quality of medical care (on top of the exorbitant cost)
- Not being able to spend much time with friends and family because they’re all drowning in work or otherwise struggling
- Thinking about the number of friends and family who have killed themselves, come close, or are likely to try
Agreed about the Healthcare, but the guns are just a symptom
That’s not a reasonable position. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, its interpretation, and the monied interests lobbying with millions of dollars to make billions selling firearms are endemic to the socio-political quagmire that is American politics.
Thus, a symptom of another problem. That’s what I said.
I like how seemingly no one here is reading the article because of the paywall, which no millennials (including me) are going to pay to get past, which is emblematic of why no one is going to pay attention to the findings of these (at a quick look) millennial-age-bracket-looking researchers instead of raging into Facebook algos or whatever most folks do. There are so many layers of irony.
The information pipe to steer us outa this is so busted. It’s unreal.
And yes, I know I can find the archive link…
Still others highlight America’s permissive gun laws
While I don’t have numbers broken out by age range, over half of all gun deaths in America each year are suicides. Source: https://gunviolencearchive.org/
Instead of banning guns and calling it done, maybe we should help those people to want to be alive. That way, so-called permissive gun laws simply wouldn’t be relevant.
