U.S. children and teens are more likely to die because of guns than car crashes, drug overdoses and cancer.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.