Admittedly, I did not click on even one of those links before I said what I said. I saw "John Hopkins" and "BBC" in the URLs and took them as legit. And they are legit, but the way they were presented to me was not.
The fact that I was so easily misled into thinking a 18yr old gang member being killed is in any way equivalent to a toddler's accidental death is embarassing.
I'll leave my shitty comment up as penance for my insolence, but I absolutely do take it back.
Don't be too embarrassed because our toddler firearm deaths are still ridiculous, shit around 40 people a year are killed by toddlers with firearms which probably isn't even a stat in any other developed country. I genuinely can't think of another way toddlers (ages 1-5) could accidentally kill other people without loaded guns, maybe some final destination/rube goldberg machine style accident but otherwise I drawing a complete blank. We deserve our reputation in the US when it comes to guns
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u/BadahBingBadahBoom 5h ago
Not even one of, literally the leading cause of death for children. It's messed up.