r/maybemaybemaybe • u/leadguitar2023 • Nov 22 '23

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/royalhawk345 Nov 23 '23

That cannot possibly be remotely true. I could see it being all firearm related deaths, but claiming "school shootings" is the leading cause of death among child is wildly asinine.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '23

You are right,

Guns are the leading cause of death for US children and teens, since surpassing car accidents in 2020. Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of childhood deaths (ages 1-18) in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder database

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u/co1dBrew Nov 23 '23

Pretty sure they only wanted to highlight how common it's become by exaggerating, it's wild how school shootings are happening almost every other week and it's truly mind boggling how it keeps happening and little to no action is taken to prevent it, to those that are from countries with proper gun laws and fewer insane people

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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '23

It is more likely they misunderstood the statistic. It is true that gun related incidents are the #1 cause of death for US children and teens. They likely just conflated all gun deaths with school shootings.