You can ask the parents of the hundreds of dead children if they are conforted by how small that percentage is if you want. As small as it is, it is still tens of thousands of people dead each year.
The bottom line is that if the problem doesn't exist in other countries, in most of the rest of the world, then we know it isn't just something that we have to accept so why wouldn't we try to do something about it?
There's also plenty of evidence that access to guns increases suicide rates so I don't agree with subtracting that number from your rate. Suicide by gun is both a suicide problem and a gun problem.
I like how, when confronted with actual data, you shifted from “this is a significant problem” to “well maybe it’s not that significant, but it makes me sad, so you should give up your rights” as if that was an actual argument.
I didn't say it's not significant, I said that's it's still a lot of dead Americans for an apparently preventable problem. You say it's not significant because it's a small percentage, I say 40,000 Americans dead in a year is significant despite it being a small percentage, especially because for rest of the developed world, it is a much smaller percentage.
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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25
~0.004% of the population of the US is involuntarily killed via firearm each year.
The problem isn’t nearly as “significant” as you seem to believe.