[HN Gopher] Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in...
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       Gun deaths were the leading killer of US children in 2020
        
       Author : basisword
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2022-04-22 20:51 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | throwaway0a5e wrote:
       | >Incidents of drug overdoses and poisonings rose 83.6% between
       | 2019 and 2020, and now are the third leading cause of death in
       | that age group
       | 
       | Wait?! What?!
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       | This should be the headline. A 1.8x increase in the runner up is
       | f-ing huge. Gun deaths edging out car crashes this year when
       | they're normally neck and neck is irrelevant by comparison.
        
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       | car_analogy wrote:
       | Gun death, gang-related death, young male-related death..
       | depending on your policy objective, you choose which
       | characteristic to emphasize, to be targeted by your preferred
       | "solution".
        
         | throwaway0a5e wrote:
         | Yup. Anyone trying to lump organized crime DIYing their own
         | dispute resolution in with domestic violence can be safely
         | ignored. They're fundamentally different types of crimes with
         | fundamentally different causes. Anyone lumping them together
         | for a purpose other than an ultra-high level overviews has
         | anterior motives and is acting in bad faith in pursuit of them.
         | The policies that will keep drug traffickers from killing each
         | other over what are fundamentally business disputes look
         | nothing like the policies that will keep people from going
         | murder-suicide over a bitter divorce.
        
       | mrlonglong wrote:
       | Well, guns aren't the biggest killer of kids in the UK.
        
       | xen2xen1 wrote:
       | Well, they didn't go outside, so..
        
       | caterama wrote:
       | Speaking of gun deaths... someone linked to
       | https://www.osha.gov/fatalities the other day and I was surprised
       | to see how many fatalities involve workers getting shot, often by
       | co-workers!
        
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