MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoFirearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study findswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square100fedilinkarrow-up1475arrow-down136file-text
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U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
minus-squaremoistclump@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoI’m not American, I’m Canadian. Talking about the statistics is important but holy fucking shit it’s depressing. Any more than 0 accidental deaths is too many.
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoGot it. More depressing is that most of those gun deaths are not an accident. It’s something like 2%, the other 98% are people choosing to shoot other people.
minus-square2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year ago“people choosing to shoot other people” or, for a very substantial percentage, people choosing to shoot themselves
minus-squareVaryk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoGood point. Almost all US gun deaths are intentional, 54% being suicides and 43% being murders, with 3% being accidents, as of 2021 https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/#:~:text=In 2021%2C 54%25 of all,had undetermined circumstances (458).
I’m not American, I’m Canadian. Talking about the statistics is important but holy fucking shit it’s depressing. Any more than 0 accidental deaths is too many.
Got it. More depressing is that most of those gun deaths are not an accident.
It’s something like 2%, the other 98% are people choosing to shoot other people.
“people choosing to shoot other people” or, for a very substantial percentage, people choosing to shoot themselves
Good point. Almost all US gun deaths are intentional, 54% being suicides and 43% being murders, with 3% being accidents, as of 2021
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/#:~:text=In 2021%2C 54%25 of all,had undetermined circumstances (458).