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

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.