This also throws up another “odd” consistency between various types of crimes, be it related to guns, cars, sexual violence, whatnot: Men. It’s virtually always men.
That’s 4% of these deaths being accidents, that is, the result of guns. In all other cases, gun use was the result of someone wanting to kill someone else or themselves.
Though to murder someone you need motive, means and opportunity. Restricting/removing guns takes a huge chunk out of the latter two parts. Plus it’s not like we need to look at things in isolation: There’s an odd through-line between the US and youth deaths and other western industrial nations and their - comparative lack of - youth deaths. If only it were possible to figure out what that is… 🤔