Guns are the things most likely to kill young people in America

in America, and the toll is the biggest at a school since a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012.there have been over 900 shootings on school grounds in America. After more than 60 years in which motor-vehicle crashes were the leading cause of death for young people, since 2017 guns have killed more Americans between the ages of one and 24. . Pupils at almost all schools take part in active-shooter drills, learning to hide beneath their desks.

Despite a level of gun violence unimaginable in most rich countries, Americans are divided on how to proceed. Only 52% favour stricter gun controls, down from 67% in 2018, according to a recent Gallup poll. The gap between Democrats and Republicans. After the Uvalde shooting Ted Cruz, a Republican senator for Texas, accused Democrats of politicising mass shootings and attempting to “restrict the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens”.

There are elements of gun control on which most Americans agree. A recent poll by Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, found widespread support for background checks on those who buy guns privately or at gun shows. Although tighter background checks would be a welcome step, the evidence on whether they prevent mass shootings is patchy. Without action at the national level, the tragic events in Uvalde will be repeated again and again.

Both are causing excessive loss of lives and can be managed, but veheicles is a vital form of transportation, but are guns vital to the normal function of a society of laws and orders?!!!!

There has yet to be a gun that jumped up and killed someone. People kill people. Gangs, suicides, etc.

Pretty specific comparison. What happens when you add drugs to that analysis?

Odd that you chose 24. Where did that number come from?

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Cars are more likely to kill people if you use them with the intent of killing. In that case they are mass murder machines. It’s the pointing, guys.

Is this the beginning of the self decline of divided America since the first migrants of Westerners conquered the American natives?

Out of being holistic - can you share data for age 24-80?

This is a deep state, globalist NWO lie.

Wonder if piersmorgan can highlight this to those Americans that don’t seem to get that guns are NOT the answer

I still don't understand why more Americans don't see this as a serious problem. Especially when there is publicly available information on the hundreds of mass shootings that have taken place in the last couple of years. Yes, I said hundreds.

Break it down by race.

Sad. So many young minorities dying. Gang violence is terrible

Thanks Chicago & Mayor Lightfoot !!

Ohh its not tik tok 🫠

Not sure why a publication like this still names the United States as the whole continent. And yes it is a sad issue in the USA.

Moooooor guns

my bet is that those gun violence deaths happened in blue states where there are the strictest gun control. And done by libs like that one in highland park IL.

Take out all democrat cities with Soros DA’s and the data is back to normal. Socialist are killing our youth.!!

We learned to improve our technology We learned to improve our infrastructure But it seems obviously We have to improve our culture.

So 10K deaths by firearms for the 0-24 demographic in 2020. For opioids the death toll was 6,129 for that age group. But all the media wants to talk about are the gun deaths.

Tom_Fowdy The writer must be so hPpy finding some trends and comparing. So infantile intellectualism. What else do we expect from Economist?

African Americans: Sadly, a category of gun death all its own.

All authoritarian tyrants are terrified of an armed populace and they will enable crime to flourish in their communities to justify their authoritarian ideology

Cars have gotten safer and more young people use Uber. Gun deaths spiked in 2020, what happened that year?

I'm sorry. I don't own or have even fired a gun, nor do I have any desire to, but the guns stay. They are a last resort check against the tyranny of government. Freedom has a price. It comes with tradeoffs, but the answer is not, nor will it ever be, no guns.

Because of climate change!

Mental health. Full stop. Wait until the pandemic effect really shows up. Or just keep blaming the guns. Such lazy reporting.

they need bigger cars

and yet guns have no economic or social value unlike vehicles. Wouldn't any society in this position just ban them like they did with hard drugs?

People kill people..the trigger has to be pulled..a gun does nothing laying on a table..

Unrestricted access to guns, not good. Hate guns. John Lennon was killed by one.

Now post the breakdown…suicide, murder, accidental

Suicide. Sad

Where is suicide? Your clients have created such a monstrous environment many take this escape route.

How many are self inflicted? Why?

scrowder I have school today and don't have the time to investigate this. Could you do me a solid and check this out? I feel like there are some misleading conclusions being pushed here.

It’s clear: we must remove airbags from cars

Now toss in childhood obesity

Exactly how many of these deaths caused by firearms between ages of 1-24 are suicide? Why does this article suggest children are in danger, but then include 18-24 year olds in its calculations? Am I to assume suicide isnt the leading cause here or 18-24 is still a child?

This is America in 2022. Republicans will say just get rid of all gun laws and give every kid a gun 😂

Now show car accidents vs gun related homicides since most fun related deaths are suicides. Suicides by gun or car should not be included in numbers meant to change policy since someone committing suicide will find a way regardless of the method.

11 mass shootings in the US. EVERY DAY. I’ve never seen a good article on why the mere presence of so many guns may drive people over the edge to think this way. You know. To a hammer everything looks like a nail.

The US government really should start thinking about equipping all American school kids with AR-15s. If they can’t handle them, then they should get Glock 17s at the very minimum.

less young people own a car or drive nowadays

Leader of the Liberal World Order lol

I guess they didn't watch the Dave Chappelle's special.

Stop making babies. There you go, easypeasy.

What’s more amazing is that nothing has actually been done.

Soon Marco Rubio will suggest seat belts for automatic weapons...

The country doesn't really remains divided. Leftists are, but not 'the country'. On the contrary, the country is quite united around self defense.

Since Sandy Hook, there have been NO initiatives to help at-risk children with mental and behavioral issues while they're still in school! Why is society surprised when these teens become spree killers? It's easy to blame a gun but HARD to stop a killer through intervention

now break down those gun deaths by racial group

It’s because the left treated police like criminals and they left so they don’t have enough police and also they brought in criminal immigrants in to cause this

It's not school shootings that drive that number, it is crime. Young people do like 80% of the crime on earth, cos they got the energy lol Which spikes all over the world, when politicians do legal plunder to render those young people destitute.

Actually people are the things most likely to kill people!

young people w/guns will most likely kill other young people in America. So how do we tackle the problem of angry, demented, immoral young people killing other people?. Take the guns away?, cute but 1-impossible 2-theres still angry, demented young people wanting 2 kill other ppl

You just proved that your covid response causes violence.

And we won’t offer a reasonable “vaccine” in the form of legislation.

What's causing this? No restraints on guns?

There were a total of 629,898 reported abortions in the US in 2019, an increase of 1.66% or 10,307 abortions from 2018.

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