Personal gun ownership (ie me owning a gun) freaks me out for the reasons in this article.

Like... probably I wouldn't I suppose? But the call to the void is much more frightening when the void is right there.

It's too much for me, that's the primary reason I don't own a gun

the org the writer collaborated with has a good primer on how to speak with survivors of gun violence (speaking as someone's who lost a loved one to gun violence)

i dont want to be overly cold about a story where a man commits suicide but i want to emphasise that at the end of the day, this guy who crafted his identity about being a emotionally stoic defender of his family completely succumbed to his emotions and left his daughters without a father and his wife without a husband in what sounds like a time of financial stress. he never used his guns to protect his family or community. it was all just an affectation in order to distance himself from the "pink" people he resented so much

i find i agree with you, especially with the outsize influence his blog held/holds. the underlying point about successful suicide rates linked with gun ownership is something that stays on my mind though

i don't think it's cold, i agree with you here