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minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoWhere did you get that number? John Hopkins is reporting 48,204 gun deaths for people aged 0-17
minus-squarebottleofchips@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-210 days ago“There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day.” 48,204 is total gun deaths. These are both horrific figures and in no way am I intending to diminish either.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·10 days agoI noticed that finding a statistical breakdown is really difficult, so I went with a source I knew was reliable and still gave a number. Thank you for finding something more specific.
minus-squarehatrick@feddit.orglinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up0·10 days agohttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/us-school-shootings-2024-in-numbers/104734714 My mistake, I was only looking at the school shootings.
Where did you get that number? John Hopkins is reporting 48,204 gun deaths for people aged 0-17
So actually less than a week.
“There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day.”
48,204 is total gun deaths.
These are both horrific figures and in no way am I intending to diminish either.
I noticed that finding a statistical breakdown is really difficult, so I went with a source I knew was reliable and still gave a number. Thank you for finding something more specific.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/us-school-shootings-2024-in-numbers/104734714
My mistake, I was only looking at the school shootings.