Depends on how they are stacked. Or what is left out.
More kids
die from gun injuries than anything else?
American
Academy of Pediatrics announcement: “In 2019, firearms surpassed motor vehicle
collisions to become the leading cause of death for youth 0-19 in the United
States, after excluding deaths due to prematurity and congenital anomalies.”
So, in other words, what they are saying is that firearms injury from all causes
(homicide, suicide, accidental) is the
leading cause of death if you ignore the leading causes of deaths. Let that
sink in for a moment. I can see only one reason for phrasing the statistics
this way and that is solely to magnify the significance of firearm deaths.
Also, the comment that firearm injuries surpassed motor vehicle collisions
glosses over the fact that this was largely due to decrease in motor vehicle
deaths rather than an increase in firearm deaths.
Ace of Spades HQ, “The Moral Abdication of the Academy”
(Abortions are not counted as deaths.)
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