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First, Be Kind
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Kind but angry. Trying to find light in the darkness. Sometimes succeeding.
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Maybe she got what she wanted -- or as close as was possible -- and it's just not public (yet).
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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From a link elsewhere in the thread. Study following a cohort of 26.3M residents of California, age 21+, who weren't initially gun owners, for ~12 years from 18/Oct/2004.

Huge increase in suicides (men 3.34x, women 7.16x), driven by gun suicide (other forms unchanged).

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Results A total of 676,425 cohort members acquired one or more handguns, and 1,457,981 died; 17,894 died by suicide, of which 6691 were suicides by firearm. Rates of suicide by any method were higher among handgun owners, with an adjusted hazard ratio of 3.34 for all male owners as compared with male nonowners (95% confidence interval [CI], 3.13 to 3.56) and 7.16 for female owners as compared with female nonowners (95% CI, 6.22 to 8.24). These rates were driven by much higher rates of suicide by firearm among both male and female handgun owners, with a hazard ratio of 7.82 for men (95% CI, 7.26 to 8.43) and 35.15 for women (95% CI, 29.56 to 41.79). Handgun owners did not have higher rates of suicide by other methods or higher all-cause mortality. The risk of suicide by firearm among handgun owners peaked immediately after the first acquisition, but 52% of all suicides by firearm among handgun owners occurred more than 1 year after acquisition.
January 11, 2026 at 9:48 AM