538.com's Interactive Gun Death Statistics Chart

[Baconator]

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/

It really helps keep things in perspective. Give it a try...

edit: Gun* ... Typing one handed is hard and slow...

[oberliner]

1. A lot of people choke to death when they swallow their gum?

[moriah]

2. Gum doesn't kill people! Though I hear it loses flavor on the bedpost overnight. ;)

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

Edit to add: Now that I've seen the site... very good link.

[roamer65]

3. Im sorry, but you are getting into a really sticky topic.

[moriah]

4. All punning aside, the link is really good.

People are pointing out Trunp rescinding the order about shrinks signing off before people who are on disability for mental illnesses that could cause psychosis or suicidal ideation would save lives. Maybe not the lives of schoolchildren, but still, lives.

But of course Trump overturned a great way to help prevent suicides at least in some. The trouble is it's helping a population he'd rather eliminate itself.

[GeoWilliam750]

5. Fascinating data

The suicide rate by gun for while males is about 3-5 times that of other races. One wonders why this might be.

For white males, the suicide rate by gun is about 7 times that of the homicide rate, accounting for nearly half of gun deaths in the United States. A gun in the home seems to be far more dangerous to its owner than to any potential intruder.