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Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61192975 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-611929
by mihaaly 4y ago
Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61192975 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-61192975
Leading Causes of Death among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1999 through 2020.: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Maybe it is not 'regular' if you find a good criteria so that it cannot be classified as 'regular', but it is shokingly often, also leading case now, and a strong upward trend while all else stagnates or goes down (except overdose and poisoning, which also increases recently)
- barry-cotter 4y agoGun deaths and deaths by school shooting are separate things. Idiots who don’t store their guns in a gun safe or don’t otherwise follow proper gun safety or suicide from improperly secured guns are not school shootings.