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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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[–] 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