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Do you know what the composition of the other 98% looks like? i.e. accidental firings at home, murders, suicides, etc?
by mandelbrotwurst 7y ago
Do you know what the composition of the other 98% looks like? i.e. accidental firings at home, murders, suicides, etc?
- Causalityl 7y agoI restricted my comparison to homicides only. They're basically statistically insignificant compared to the other much more common causes of child firearm death.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoThanks, sorry, misread. Was asking because am curious about how the deaths break down overall as this would affect what we might want to focus on when attempting to reduce them.
- protomyth 7y agoThe CDC does an amazing job of gather stats on what kills people in the USA. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm and those statistics have a section on child mortality.
- mandelbrotwurst 7y agoThanks!
- erklik 7y agoInteresting, by gathering data on what kills people, they inadvertently also gather data on how dangerous guns are. Although, props to the CDC. That is some serious data gathering, cleaning etc. Most countries don't have that level of detail. At least not publically available.
- protomyth 7y agoBeware of comparing the data with other countries as the definition for what looks like the same terms is hidden in the details. Infant mortality is one area where there are some fundamental differences in definition (yeah, this is a surprise). Guns are a far cry in danger from quite a lot of activities.