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Jiro | karma 1010 | avg karma 2.08 · 2022-05-30 18:30:02

The cutoff at age 18 is so that gang warfare that kills gang members who are under 18 can be counted as shootings of "children".

mschuster91 | karma 19531 | avg karma 1.6 · 2022-05-31 03:29:53

The US has a child accidentally shoot a gun almost every day, with 765 people ending up dead in five years [1].

That alone is horrific and completely unheard of outside the US and active war zones.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/08/31/1032725392/guns-death-childre...

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pseudo0 | karma 2966 | avg karma 4.56 · 2022-05-31 09:52:33

So in a country with around 75 million under-18s, that works out to an approximate risk of 1/500,000 per kid per year. And per the article:

> The most likely age group to be both shooters and victims are teenagers ages 14 to 17

Maybe we should make firearms safety and hunters education classes once again part of the school curriculum to prevent these accidents? Just like with driving classes, training and experience in a controlled environment is a great way to reduce the frequency of accidents. Although that assumes the incidents in question are accidents, rather than "accidents".

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