Almost forgot - I guess I got so carried way yesterday with my righteous indignation over veterans having to jump thru flaming hoops to get their bennies that I overlooked one of the truly shittier aspects of the story of American Veterans having to jump thru those flaming hoops just to get the help they've already earned.
So here it is:
Something like 4,000 US Veterans use a gun to commit suicide every year.
About a dozen per day.
That's almost one every couple of hours every day. They kill themselves with guns.
They have to stand in line for 6 months or 9 months or a year or more trying to get treatment for the kind of disorders that lead people to take their own lives, but they can all buy a gun with no problem at all.
That's pretty fucked up right there.
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