If you look at the graph and compare the height of the total rate lines over the firearm suicides you will notice they are close to the same. The big difference between Democrats and Republicans suicides is the number of gun deaths. I've got to run some more numbers on this.

I have done separate analyses of Southern Baptist and non-Southern Baptist Evangelicals, It is strongest among Southern baptist. This increased after the Southern Baptist got their own right to offer Health insurance and health care as a rider on Obama Care legislation.

It doesn't help you decide where you want yourself or your children live?

By having the government provide food to the low income workers, the public is in effect letting employers pay less to keep their workers alive.

Some more on gun knowledge. The casing holds the gun power, the "head" I always called the thing that gets shot was made of lead but probably is not any more. As a professor for more than 30 years, I found this kind of knowledge to stick in lectures is what some students appreciate your knowing.

And they still made with lead? If so they still need to be removed. The last ones I looked at were, but that was about 50 years ago.

There are two things going on. First some are uninsured, second the health insurance companies deny care but don’t release data on it. If we had socialized medical care for our middle aged the problem would go away.

I had an encephalitis infection of my brain in 2006. When I came to I had a vocabulary of 196 words and couldn't put sentences together. I have gone through recovery spells and I am happy to be able to do what I put on Bluesky. I enjoy being able to read a lot of the posts here.

I am afraid the problem is Trump want's to move the elderly to Republican version of middle age health care.

Thanks for the comment.

Probably me. I am still recovering from a brain infection, sometimes words just don't come out right. Sorry.

What a good example of the introductory sociology topic: Role expectations defined.

I am a retired demographer and I have explained this in some of my posts here. Main reason is capitalist healthcare followed by religions that use prayer to cure.

Our CIA ranks Canada 7th in all countries life expectancy and the united States 49th, Canadian life expectancy is 3.3 years longer than people in the United States and they pay about half as much for health care.

Health care is likely to improve as well. Just a demographer commenting.

An idea I got reading this. If we labeled supernatural ideas as "safe and fun" on the good end and "so dangerous it can be fatal" on the bad end instead of "all bad", the bad ones might kill fewer people.

Thought about this for several decades. I have decided that it is scientifically explainable but the number and complexity of interactions make it too complex for the human brain to use in everyday decision making. A few main variables with some handy descriptions is as good as we can use.