U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.
it’s a shame guns have so many rights
even protected by god
Welp, I looked it up, and one study focused on 14 and younger, about a thousand deaths by car crash, and one focused on 13 to 19, with about 3000 deaths, so even combined and ignoring the overlap in the age range of the studies and going over the age of 18, 15% more kids in the US are getting killed by guns than car crashes, and that gap is widening each year.
Car crashes, ODs and cancer fatalities among minors are far lower than I thought. Just as an aside.
It might seem low, but when looking at statistics about fatalities, it’s a good idea to keep in mind the many injured and potentially permanently disabled that aren’t included.
Medical professionals can work magic, and that is great. But non-fatal car crash, overdose, cancer, and gun injuries can also be tragic, both short and long term. Diminished mental capacity, loss of limbs or physical abilities, lifelong pain, the list goes on…
I had a friend in high school who accidentally shot himself with a gun when he was a small child. He’s in a wheelchair for life.
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.
Just remember guns don’t kill toddlers, toddlers kill toddlers.
Toddlers are lunatics, we’re just lucky they’re so small and uncoordinated
Let’s look at the numbers around NBC’s claim here. 4752 children killed by guns (or toddlers with guns) in 2021. There are 73 million children in the USA. That’s only 0.0065% of children in America killed.
99.99% of children in the USA were not killed by guns in 2021.
I’m convinced that you think you have made a compelling argument for something.
From 2018 to 2021, there was a nearly 42% increase in the rate of children killed by guns, according to the analysis.
Do we know why?
Donald O’Biden
more guns
Yes, but only in the US and in war zones. Actually, usually less in war zones.
Out of those 2021 fatalities, 64.3% were homicides, 29.9% were suicides and 3.5% resulted from unintentional injury, according to the analysis.
The burden of gun homicides among children has disproportionately affected communities of color.
Black children accounted for 67.3% of gun-related homicides, with a nearly twofold death rate increase from 2020. White children accounted for 78.4% of gun-related suicides.
Is this random and unexplainable? Is there a cause?
Gangs have replaced the family unit in many poor areas. Not because the people are more criminal, but because it’s a self reinforcing loop. Anyone who can leaves the area, single parent households are common because many of the fathers are in jail or killed. This leaves Gangs as both a source of male role models and income for children, which leads to more getting killed or jailed.
Gangs use children for higher risk activities, because they get lighter sentences if caught. Kids that do time are then more dependent on gangs for support as legitimate work is harder to find.
Thank you for your reply. It seems to me that gangs are rarely mentioned in the news these days. I need do some research and get a grasp on the magnitude of the problem.
too many guns
Thank you for your deeply insightful analysis of the situation.
it’s simple, stupid… you gotta learn to ask the right questions is this life…
more guns + more bullets = more holes in people
only a damned coward would try to wiggle around that…
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But what about the drag queens??
Firearms have no place in a household. Anybody who defends it is just a closeted gun nut.
So let me get this straight. I’m expected to believe more kids are dying from guns than overdose? Based on a “study” that NBC news didn’t even deign to put a citation to in their article?? Iv never met anyone who died of gun violence.Iv And more than 20 who OD’d before turning 18. The verbiage. Not a new study. A “new analysis” of the data that again they dont provide a single citation to. The clear partisan language targeting lack of legislation as the reason for people dying instead of any mention of the real issue. Mental health.
Its NBC news. I dont expect real journalism from these guys.
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Gun homicides committed on 17-year olds 2018-2021 = 1,659
Gun deaths for ages 1-19 2018-2021 = 15,803
Source: https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.htmlSo even if we disregard your rampant disrespect for the lives of children, you have successfully described (at most) a little over 10% of child gun deaths, so I’m sure the families of the other 90% will totally agree with you.
Shut up!
i don’t remember guns being able to pull the trigger, i thought somebody else had to do that
somebody
Yup. But you know who doesn’t shoot kids? The people that don’t have guns.
Not many are being shot from walking around saying “bang”.
It’s a shared experience. It’s like a lot things in life. Crack doesn’t smoke itself and wives don’t beat themselves up. It’s almost like their are more complicated things than useless reduction rhetoric of a mindless fool.
You’re exactly right. And notice how instead of trying to eradicate crack from the earth, instead we’re treating people that abuse it and trying to stop people from doing so in the first place.
The same is said for alcohol, cigarettes, etc. Don’t get me wrong - harsher restrictions need to be put in place. But as you said, it’s complicated.
Even though a lot of gunnits certainly behaves that way, guns aren’t actually drugs and can’t be compared to drugs in any shape or form.
Gladius was the one who compared them to drugs. I was just following their analogy.
Thanks for agreeing. It makes my life easier.
Meth can’t smoke itself!
It’s hard to trigger a gun that does not exist.
your ignorance isn’t important
Aside from natural disasters that tends to be true for a lot of things that kill people. And I’m pretty sure we still talk about those.
Almost like we put outrageous exceptions on guns vs all other kinds of dangerous tools we use.
