The epidemic of white male suicide

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blackascoal

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White men are killing themselves more than any other race.

“When you’ve had the luxury of presuming yourself to be the norm, the prototype of an American, any change in the demographic and cultural realities in your society will strike you as outsized attacks on your status.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all suicides are firearm-related and 80 percent of firearm-related suicides are by white males. These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.
http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/the-epidemic-of-white-male-suicide/

Your typical Trump supporter. No doubt mostly republicans.

I didn't get an answer in another thread .. but if white males are so special and privileged .. why are they killing themselves is such astronomical numbers?

Is this why they are such avid gun supporters .. so they can have one around in case they want to blow their own brains out?
 
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Why White Men Desperately Need Gun Control

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There seems to be a vague hand-waving that people who kill themselves will do so whether they have guns or not. The problem with this truism is, well, it isn’t really true. Fleeting suicidal thoughts are relatively common and not always acted upon. People do elaborately plan their suicides sometimes, but brief moments in the throes of distress or mental illness are more the norm.

Having an easy, lethal means at hand to act upon that impulse increases the likelihood of a fatal suicide attempt. It’s the reason that when coal gas ovens were phased out in favor of natural gas ones in Britain in the 1960s and ‘70s suicide rates dropped and never came back up. Ease and accessibility of method matters, otherwise jumping off a bridge in the United States would be more popular. Instead, jumpers included across all the most famous suicide bridges in the country over their entire history add up to less than a tenth of the annual gun suicide total.

The presence of the gun matters, and that’s why gun control is especially important when it comes to white men. The Population Research Bureau found that white men over the age of 65 are almost three times more likely to die by their own hands as the general population. Middle aged white people, both men and women, are seeing increased mortality rates even as other groups are seeing down turns. Suicides are becoming more common, especially in men in this group, as are substance abuse problems, which a lecturer joked to me recently was “suicide on the installment plan.”

Coinciding with this rise of suicides in aging white male populations is the increase in gun buying. Men on average possess twice as many guns as women, and whites statistically outnumber all other ethnicities in America. The reasons behind both rising gun ownership and dangerous levels of despair in white men go hand in hand; economic anxiety, a feeling of lost power and agency, and fear of a country experiencing great demographical change. Guns and white men blues are making for a fatal cocktail that thousands of Americans are slamming down every year with horrific results.

White men desperately need gun control right now, and they can’t get it because the movers and shakers in the pro-gun debate have successfully overshadowed the idea of safety with oppression and disarmament. Meanwhile, gun manufacturers and pop media continue to market the gun as a virility-enhancing problem-solver, and white men in distress are eating it up.
http://www.houstonpress.com/arts/the-myth-that-incels-want-sex-10443838
 
blackascoal said:
Of course they are.

This board is a microcosm of that ignorance.

I suspect that 40% of right-wingers now posting on this board will kill themselves.
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You are no different than the white racists on the board.

I think the whole lot of you should get your own island. The country would be better off for it.
 
The number one recorded cause of death for African-American males between the ages of 15 and 34 is homicide. But are these deaths often characterized by law enforcement, coroners and family as accidental or homicidal when, in fact, the individual wanted or expected to die?"
Something to consider....
 
blackascoal said:
White men are killing themselves more than any other race.

“When you’ve had the luxury of presuming yourself to be the norm, the prototype of an American, any change in the demographic and cultural realities in your society will strike you as outsized attacks on your status.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all suicides are firearm-related and 80 percent of firearm-related suicides are by white males. These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.
http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/the-epidemic-of-white-male-suicide/

Your typical Trump supporter. No doubt mostly republicans.

I didn't get an answer in another thread .. but if white males are so special and privileged .. why are they killing themselves is such astronomical numbers?

Is this why they are such avid gun supporters .. so they can have one around in case they want to blow their own brains out?
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These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.


“Low levels of household income ($20,000 or less) are associated with lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts,
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I've actually known several people in my lifetime that committed suicide or died from drug overdose (same thing IMO).
Usually it's severe depression.
 
Darth Omar said:
You are no different than the white racists on the board.

I think the whole lot of you should get your own island. The country would be better off for it.
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That's interesting .. given that YOU are one of the white racists here.

Also interesting is that you are offended by these facts because it's about white men, whereas you would not have been offended or the least bit disturbed if these facts where about black men.

... fly away little bird ...
 
aloysious said:
Not according to your link.
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These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.

“[]Low levels of household income ($20,000 or less) are associated with lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts,

Typical Trump anti-everybody supporter.

Yes they are.
 
blackascoal said:
White men are killing themselves more than any other race.

“When you’ve had the luxury of presuming yourself to be the norm, the prototype of an American, any change in the demographic and cultural realities in your society will strike you as outsized attacks on your status.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all suicides are firearm-related and 80 percent of firearm-related suicides are by white males. These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.
http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/the-epidemic-of-white-male-suicide/

Your typical Trump supporter. No doubt mostly republicans.

I didn't get an answer in another thread .. but if white males are so special and privileged .. why are they killing themselves is such astronomical numbers?

Is this why they are such avid gun supporters .. so they can have one around in case they want to blow their own brains out?
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How much of that is more of a testament to the idea that having a gun in the house increases one's chances of dying from a gunshot?

Everybody gets depressed sometimes. Older, conservative white males comprise the largest group of gun owners, therefore, they are the group most likely to have easy access to a gun in the home. So maybe it has as much or possibly more to do with gun ownership than it does to any percieved change in social demographics or status.
 
blackascoal said:
White men are killing themselves more than any other race.

“When you’ve had the luxury of presuming yourself to be the norm, the prototype of an American, any change in the demographic and cultural realities in your society will strike you as outsized attacks on your status.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 60 percent of all suicides are firearm-related and 80 percent of firearm-related suicides are by white males. These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.
http://arizonasonoranewsservice.com/the-epidemic-of-white-male-suicide/

Your typical Trump supporter. No doubt mostly republicans.

I didn't get an answer in another thread .. but if white males are so special and privileged .. why are they killing themselves is such astronomical numbers?

Is this why they are such avid gun supporters .. so they can have one around in case they want to blow their own brains out?
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Careful ... next they'll make that a Rule Breaker :rofl2::dasracist:
 
blackascoal said:
These men are older, uneducated and from an impoverished socioeconomic background.

“[]Low levels of household income ($20,000 or less) are associated with lifetime mental disorders and suicide attempts,

Typical Trump anti-everybody supporter.

Yes they are.
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They feel if they're no better than a Black Man ... they may as well end it all ... and I'm ok with that.
 
blackascoal said:
Agreed.

But why would white men be more depressed than anyone else BY FAR?
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The stats are saying just under half of suicides are white males with firearms. And it's saying they are often poor and uneducated. Does being poor and uneducated mean one has to be unhappy? I don't think so. Mental disorders I could see though. Considering there are way more white males than any other ethnicity the numbers aren't shocking. What would be interesting is to know how they compare to their peer group (age, economics etc) in terms of suicides
 
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