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Gun homicides and suicides in US children and teens are at a record high (www.cnn.com)

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[–] EmmaGoldman@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

interesting that gun suicides went down when students were learning from home, rather than at school. Reduced bullying, or was the early pandemic grill & chill as good for other peoples' mental health as it was for mine?

[–] sovietsnake@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think school shootings "declined" because there wasn't a school to go to, not suicides.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? Gun suicides did go down too though only barely

[–] Comrade_Improving@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but in this graph the decline was around 2017-2018.

[–] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It wasn't really much either. It might be statistical noise more than anything meaningful now that I'm looking at it more closely

[–] Blursty@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I went to university with a lot of Americans in Ireland and the stories they'd tell, nerds, jocks everyone. It sounded brutal, the popularity contests and the bullying. Nobody thought of their school days fondly.