A woman who had recently become an SR reader wrote me today to thank me for my ongoing comments about America’s gun psychosis because recently her husband who had lost his job had shot and killed himself. She said she had never thought much about guns or had any interest in them, but now she understood why I felt so strongly about what guns have become in America. Her email prompted me to look at the trend of suicide in the United States, and I was both astonished and appalled at what I found, including this article. To quote it, “Since 2017, firearm suicide has been the cause of roughly 25,000 deaths each year. Nearly 80 percent are white males ages 15 and older…. The core of the gun rights movement — and the firearms market — is made up of white men who live in suburbs or rural areas. These buyers are among the least likely to encounter gun violence, but the most likely to die by their own hand using a firearm.” What surprised me is that suicide in the U.S. is essentially a White male problem and that the NRA argument about keeping a gun in your home for protection is complete crap. The reality is that White men who keep a gun in their homes mostly end up killing themselves, as this article describes. This is a real cultural sickness, and I think it is fundamentally caused by the fact that an increasing number of men are not adapting to gender and racial equality and, based on the data White Christian men, historically dominant, are particularly unable to deal with this emerging equality and are increasingly killing themselves.