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[+] 184 points 1 year ago (13 children)
  • [–] 66 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    And a lot of those things you listed are simply because life kind of sucks here

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago

    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
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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Agreed about the Healthcare, but the guns are just a symptom

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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