cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19738133
this post was submitted on 13 Sep 2024
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Firearm-related deaths are a leading cause of death in 1-19 year old kids, but homicide is a fraction of that number, and school shootings is a fraction of that fraction. The biggest category for firearm deaths are accidental shootings in minority communities in the city. School shootings is not even close to being a leading cause of death.
I'm sorry, but that's the shittest stat I've heard.
"Our kids are dying due to an issue of firearm regulation, but worry not, only a fraction of those preventable deaths are purposeful mass murders at educational institutions!"
Crazy that someone actually wrote something like that.
I mean all child mortality stats are shitty, because they're about kids dying.
But the short version of it is that the largest segment of kids dying to guns is them being accidentally shot in the same demographics whose adults make up the largest slice of shooting homicides (in both perps and victims) - minority (especially black) inner city communities.
The reasons are likely related - if you're in a demographic where you're more likely to shoot or be shot you're more likely to have a gun around that's not well secured, which means you're more likely to have accidental shootings too.