Gun homicides and suicides in US children and teens are at a record high | CNN
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Children and teens in the US are dying of gun-related homicides and suicides in record numbers, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    9 months ago

    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?

    • Soviet Snake
      7·
      9 months ago

      I think school shootings “declined” because there wasn’t a school to go to, not suicides.

          • Water Bowl Slime
            2·
            9 months 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
      4·
      9 months 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.

  • KiG V2
    61·
    9 months ago

    Overwhelmingly black children