MicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agoFirearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study findswww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square101fedilinkarrow-up1444arrow-down133file-text
arrow-up1411arrow-down1external-linkFirearms killed a record number of children in 2021, study findswww.nbcnews.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square101fedilinkfile-text
U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
minus-square2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-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).
“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).