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Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

This is especially surprising to me because Chicago is one of the few US cities with decent public transportation, so there’s a significant percentage of people that aren’t driving.

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Taldan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Vehicle fatalities are generally far higher than gun fatalities in the US. For decades it was the #1 cause of death under 45, only recently being dethroned to poisonings thanks to fentanyl

For Chicago, this is brought down by very low car ownership rate (by US standards), and a high gun fatality rate (including suicides by gun)

Still surprising guns have kept up though

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- ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Side note:
  
  I’ve always been on the fence about including suicide in gun violence statistics because I can see both sides of the argument. Yes, the death probably wouldn’t have happened without the gun since it’s the “quick solution”, but also I don’t really see self harm as “violence” per se…
  
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