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I Don’t Hate That Guy

Mary Rose Campbell
2 min readAug 23, 2024

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The guy who used to be president and is running for president again is who I call “that guy.” I don’t hate him. Really, I don’t. I have numerous friends and family who think he is great, that he is the solution to what is seen as wrong in this country. These are friends and family that I do not intend to shut out of my life because of a political difference.

This has been so important for me to see. A few years ago, my older son and I had a difference of opinion about guns. At his recommendation I checked the data. Having only listened to the media, I had a particular view. I did not previously know that the most gun deaths in the United States for years had been from suicide. If we were really serious about decreasing gun deaths, we would be addressing why folks think being in human form does not work for them anymore.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm

It was some months after I posted my new knowledge on Facebook that we started seeing more focus on mental health and suicide deaths.

So now, when either political party spouts some statistics, I start to do some research. Well, I don’t do that all the time, but I am more apt to start looking for the data, the statistics, before I believe what is being told to me.

It is in that vein that I began to look for news agencies that would do fact checking on the…

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Mary Rose Campbell
Mary Rose Campbell

Written by Mary Rose Campbell

Mother, grandmother, life coach, social worker, lover of life, passionate connector, compassionate leader.

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