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minus-squarehatrick@feddit.orgcakelinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up0·6 months agoGood point, even though the numbers don’t check out. There were 69 children killed this year. 813 billionaires in the US. It would take almost 12 years.
minus-squarerockSlayer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months 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-26 months 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-up0·6 months 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.orgcakelinkfedilinkDeutscharrow-up0·6 months 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.
Good point, even though the numbers don’t check out.
There were 69 children killed this year. 813 billionaires in the US. It would take almost 12 years.
Where did you get that number? John Hopkins is reporting 48,204 gun deaths for people aged 0-17
“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.
So actually less than a week.