As reported by worldhealthexpectancy.com, in 2017, there were 19,510 homicides in the United States; yet, incredibly that was far exceeded by the amount of suicides which was 47,173. So then, whether murder is committed by an outside agent, or is turn inward as in self-murder, the bottom line is that a discouraging amount of Americans die via murder, or self-murder each year. Why so many people are murdered or commit suicide each year, undoubtedly has a lot of underlying causes, of which certainly one of the them is that those countries that are prone to violence as witnessed by their governmental actions, are going to be countries in which, unsurprisingly, that violence is invariably also turned outward as well as inward against fellow denizens. Further to the point, those countries that believe that an appropriate way to resolve conflict and disappointment, is to utilize violence, more often than not, are also going be those countries in which those people that are extremely angry at themselves or others will more readily look to commit violent acts against their own person or another person.
The bottom line is that no matter how it is committed, murder and suicide are violent acts, of which, because the United States is such a strong believer that its citizens have the right to arm themselves with weapons that are both effective and lethal in what they are designed to be, that some of those people are obviously going to desire to use such specifically for that purpose. In addition, the fact that no other country prescribes more pharmaceutical substances than the United States contributes to all sorts of tragic decisions; especially, because these drugs are prone to both being abused as well as being over utilized, thereby leading to a strong tendency from that abuse or over usage to unnecessarily addle a given person's brain, so that these vulnerable people are thereby less capable of making rational decisions, because their sensibility and their reading of situations is both off and distorted.
There is something sad in the noting, that far too many people devalue their own life, as well as others, and from that devaluation, it thereupon makes it easier for them to make decisions that result in the taking of another person's life or their own. After all, that which you value highly, will be accorded the respect due to that valuation; whereas that which is considered to be something that is lightly valued, or devalued from what it once was, or even worse, reclassified in a manner in which that which is human and thereby the inviolable holder of unalienable rights, has been erroneously replaced with a redefinition that somehow supplants that real person to now being perceived as just an object, or perhaps as an animal of no real worth, thereby leads to a very real human tragedy.
While there are lot of ways to deal with the current rather sad state of affairs in regards to murder and suicide, such as more stringent gun control laws, and far more effective drug prescription overview and enforcement rules; these reforms in and of themselves are not nearly enough to stem the tide. Rather, what is needed is the conscious recognition that all of human life has unalienable rights, and that it is our highest duty to see that these rights are first and foremost, respected and upheld by all, so that each human life is rightly valued for the priceless worth that makes the liberty of life worth living.