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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reality check:  more people die annually from falling out of bed than from school shootings.  If we really want to save lives, we can save more lives with less effort than by trying to reduce school shootings.  Yes, school shootings are emotional events (and many people are bad at math), but that doesn't mean that passing reactionary legislation is the best way to save lives in the US.

- Not a Republican[/quote]

Are these people being pushed out of bed? No. People have the option of installing a railing to keep them in bed if this is an important issue to them.

It’s not just school shootings. Guns need to be regulated. [/quote]

Please be real.  The chances of being in a school shooting are lower than dying from a car or bus crash to or from school.  That does not mean ignore it.  But please keep in perspective.[/quote]

Guns are the leading cause of death for children in the US PP.   this is not JUST about school shootings.  This is about reducing the number of guns out there to protect kids everywhere, not just at school.[/quote]

Yes, don’t let them narrow the issue to “just” school shootings. This is so much bigger than that. Gun violence is a leading cause of death among young children. [/quote]

Can you please provide the link to reputable statistics source which also includes health related issues, drownings and car accidents.  I am not negating, I want to see the proof.[/quote]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/guns-leading-cause-death-children-cdc
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You know where they are going with this, right?  They are going to blame the pandemic response on the increase of homicides and suicides that dramatically jumped in 2020.  They will be blaming Democrats for advocating the measures that led to despair causing increase in gun deaths.  In other words, they won't blame guns.

I bolded the parts for you that would help their rhetoric that it's not guns themselves, but something that happened in 2020, and also deaths were intentional, not accidents, which indicates rise in crime and mental health crisis

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Firearms were the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents for the first time in 2020, the most recent year with data available.

[b]While studies in 2016 found that motor vehicle accidents surpassed gun deaths for children, a roughly 30% spike in the latter between 2019 and 2020 made firearms the leading cause of death[/b], according to an analysis of CDC data published in the New England Journal of Medicine in late April.

The CDC reported 4,368 child deaths by gunfire in 2020, the vast majority of which were homicides, followed by suicides. [b]Unintentional gun deaths and deaths where a motive could not be determined accounted for a very small portion of the data.
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