MLive reporter Julie Mack will answer questions today during a Reddit Ask Me Anything forum about the link between guns and suicide.

The Reddit AMA will be live at 1 p.m. Here's a link to submit questions and join the conversation: https://www.reddit.com/r/iama

Mack was the reporter on a series of stories posted on MLive last week about the topic.

The main story focused on gun suicides in Ironwood in the western Upper Peninsula and included interviews with a 20-year-old who tried to kill himself last fall, the mother of two sons who committed suicide by gun five years apart and another mother whose son killed himself and his pregnant girlfriend.

Suicides explain why Gogebic County has among the highest gun fatality rates in Michigan, based on 1999-2014 data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Of Michigan counties with the highest per capita gun deaths, nine of the top 10 are in the Upper Peninsula or north of Mount Pleasant in the Lower Peninsula.

Read all the stories in the series below: