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

  • Hardeehar@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    It’s so weird to file 18 and 19 year olds under “children”. Aren’t 18+ already considered adults and their lifestyle is going to be more risky than an actual child in grade school?

    If you kept it at actual “minors”, I wonder how this data would look.

    It’s kind of like saying that car accidents are a major cause of death in children because they drive too fast.

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      2 years ago

      They’re dead 18 year olds. If my 18 year old child died, I wouldn’t debate their age or the statistics.

      More than 1 accidental death is 1 too many.

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        2 years ago

        I’m not arguing that though. I totally agree that any loss of life is wrong.

        And the use of child in your context is different from the use of child in the context of this discussion.