The United States continues to set records under the Biden administration, but few if any of them are anything you’d want to brag about. We’ve broken records in terms of illegal immigration and gas prices. But an even more depressing statistic emerged this week. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more Americans died by suicide in 2022 than at any previous time in the nation’s history. Just short of 50,000 people took their own lives. And in a notable change of pace, the Associated Press didn’t blame the spike in suicides on either racism or climate change. They did, however, blame it on guns. Because of course they did.Read More
The suicide epidemic
