Wow. What a horrifying stat.
Our military men and women are specifically trained for and know of the dangers they may face. Many are sent to battlefields and on special missions with the enemy shooting at them.
Our children are not. They go to school to learn. But yet, they die from guns more than our soldiers (and here on our own homeland, not abroad).
This is beyond anything imaginable.
Here's another horrifying stat: American kids aged 15-19 are 82 times more likely to die from gun violence than their peers in the rest of the developed world.
Eighty. Two.
Anyone want to claim the U.S. has 82 times as much mental illness as the rest of the developed world?
THE EASY AVAILABILITY OF GUNS IS THE PROBLEM. Other factors are insignificant in comparison.
Anyone who denies this is willfully blind.
Edit: forgot the references.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/its-the-guns/560771/https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0767
