Actually, the leading cause of death of children in the US is motor vehicle deaths. Fentanyl is killing a 100,000 Americans a year and the dazzler could give a sh*t. My high school had a gun range and kids brought their match rifles to school on the bus. Kids brought shot guns to school in their cars and then went pheasant hunting after school in the fall when pheasants were plentiful in the Willamette Valley. Guns weren't a problem then. Something has changed in our culture and we know what it is. But, disarming honest non-criminal Americans is not the solution. Disarming and punishing criminals is. Multiple arrests of gang bangers with felonies and in possession of a stolen guns results in minimal punishment in blue jurisdictions. But Team Dazzler isn't interested in disarming criminal gangs. They are interested in disarming you.
actually, the leading cause of death of “children” is firearms. And that is the headline that the media likes. But parsing the data tells a different story. First, in the cited stat, children are defined as 0 to 19 years old. Up to age 12 not many kids die from any cause and of those who do die, firearms are down the list. So the real stat re: firearms pertains to teenagers. As one would expect, more teens die from all causes than little kids. Firearms does take the #1 cause of death spot for teens, and in numbers that when 0-12 kids are added to teens, the firearms deaths of teen skews all age cause of death to firearms.
The teen deaths can be parsed even further. Mostly male, mostly suicide. Of homicides, further parse the data by race.
Draw what ever conclusions you want, but to me a picture comes into focus.
