We continue to kill others, and ourselves

This Memorial Day I am thinking of one American citizen in particular: Bob Nixon. Nixon was 67 when he died in March. He lived in Anacortes, was retired, a lawyer, married, white and middle class. He was also probably depressed. And he was a gun owner. He is now a suicide victim.

Nixon was from a prominent family. He was class president at Vanderbilt University. His father and brother are doctors. His wife had no idea that he was stockpiling a small arsenal. He owned six guns.

In 2016, 38,551 Americans died from guns. Almost 60 percent were from suicide. When the Gun Violence Archive daily inc...