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Aw, man, I hate seeing your name, but always love seeing that it's you. I wish I could make it better for you.
Sorry but I'm next in line
Let's make it a 2-for-1.
That's not a suicide booth, that's Bender's apartment.
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It sounds like the US is just a dangerous place to live in a variety of ways, it's interesting that traffic fatalities are one of the reasons behind their high rate of premature death.
Still others highlight America’s permissive gun laws
While I don’t have numbers broken out by age range, over half of all gun deaths in America each year are suicides. Source: https://gunviolencearchive.org/
Instead of banning guns and calling it done, maybe we should help those people to want to be alive. That way, so-called permissive gun laws simply wouldn’t be relevant.
You could safe it by turning the title into "American Billionaires are Dying at an Alarming Rate"
I think you mean "aren't" dying at a high enough rate?
I meant that would fix the situation but I didn't write it well