CoWorker said the border was at fault that non-vaxed ppl are dying

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This is so very P99 right here: we've got a mix of people living in reality, and people living in the fantasy in their head.

First, the fantasy:



... and, the reality:



But (I hear you say), who cares if someone in my family kills themself, or me? I'm magically 100% certain no one in my family will ever have a mental health issue, and guns protect me from bad guys! NRA-funded studies told me so:



... except, that data is from self-reported studies. Why? Because the NRA got laws passed that made it difficult for neutral parties to conduct neutral studies, and then they paid for private studies that supported their view. But when you ask people to self-report, they're likely to have bias:



So to recap, there's fantasy-land, where you start by believing whatever you want to believe, and try to cherry-pick questionable data from a clearly-biased source to support that take:

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... and then there's reality, where the simple truth is that if you have a gun in your home, you're far more likely to have it kill you or a family member than a "bad guy". Here's Jon Oliver talking about the reality of what happened when Australia got stricter gun control:

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