Guns & Mental Health

Came across this on Quora:

There are more teen suicides in a given year in America than people killed in every school shooting in American history combined.

Are you kidding me? So I checked with Wikipedia. 5,000 teenagers commit suicide every year. School shootings since the American Revolution have killed fewer than 600.

 Part of what makes people who they are, and what makes them so interesting is that they are inherently unstable. Most people manage to maintain a semblance of sanity most of the time, but you catch anyone at the wrong time with the wrong stimulus and you are liable to have a violent explosion.

We have a very bipolar view of violence. People pay zillions of dollars to watch violent movies and play violent video games, but if anyone engages in real world violence they are treated as a criminal.