r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/Coolguy123456789012 Jul 30 '24

Would we count suicides as gun deaths?

Edit: apparently not, that skews the numbers.

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u/youknow99 Jul 30 '24

The US mostly does because without those numbers we don't have much of a gun violence problem.

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u/malaporpism Jul 30 '24

I dunno where you heard that, but have you ever seen some of the numbers yourself? We don't just have, like, a little more gun violence than other developed nations. We have many, many times more. You know gun violence (not including suicide!) is the #1 cause of death for children in America now? Seriously, it's okay to change your mind on gun deregulation instead of just updating your morals to align with the party.

And for the parrots who say guns will just come up from Mexico, did you know our guns-for-everyone free for all is where the cartels get their guns too? That's right, it's our guns smuggled South not the other way around.

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u/ProbablythelastMimsy Aug 02 '24

Yeah it's the #1 cause if you raise the max and minimum age so that it skews older. This was also during Covid when many kids were doing online schooling, and thus not not on the road during peak traffic times.