• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    Honestly… Just raise your children abroad where dying at school isn’t the lead cause of childhood mortality.

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      3 months ago

      Firearm-related deaths are a leading cause of death in 1-19 year old kids, but homicide is a fraction of that number, and school shootings is a fraction of that fraction. The biggest category for firearm deaths are accidental shootings in minority communities in the city. School shootings is not even close to being a leading cause of death.

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          3 months ago

          “Our kids are dying due to an issue of firearm regulation, but worry not, only a fraction of those preventable deaths are purposeful mass murders at educational institutions!”

          Crazy that someone actually wrote something like that.

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      3 months ago

      I thought you were making a joke but the number one cause of childhood mortality in the US is firearms. Number two is vehicles.

      No problems here though, ehat can you do right? Thoughts and prayers!

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        3 months ago

        Interestingly, the most dangerous thing to have around children is a pool.

        Drowning is the number 1 cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the US and still asking the leading causes of death all through childhood. Most of those deaths are in pools.

        8 percent of houses have pools, whereas 40 percent have guns.

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          3 months ago

          Sure, more people should understand the danger around having a pool.

          I have a pool and small children. I dont have a gun though.

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            3 months ago

            There are also regulations where I lived that you can’t have a pool built now without having a barricade of some sort to prevent kids from falling in. But no regulations that you have to have a gun behind a barricade around kids. (You could be grandfathered into not having the netting if you had it built prior to the legislation)

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              3 months ago

              Pools and trampolines are considered dangerous for kids in america when the top two causes of death for children are guns and cars.