The homicide rate and suicide rate are inversely correlated. One goes up the other goes down. As a whole the country is getting less violent so this is a predictable result. And it doesn’t require anyone to invent a communist plot to sap and unpurify our precious bodily fluids or gay frogs.

I agree it’s far from ideal. I might suggest that we don’t actively work hard to kill the middle class and maybe stop school shootings. But we won’t do that when it is easier for us to blame Emmanuel Goldste— sorry tik Tok.