this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
224 points (97.9% liked)

Asklemmy

44149 readers
1375 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

correct! And even in USA where there is a mass shooting like every day, the car is worse than firearms

[โ€“] CRS_Customer 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if you're under 24, and in the good ole US of A, it would seem. Even in the graph above, urban areas are more likely to result in gun violence than automotive injury.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

indeed! just to clarify: by no means do i want to defend firearm practices there. Interesting graph - especially the development in recent years! ๐Ÿ˜ฐ