Please quote where I said the data was from 2024.

You posted an image acting like because it said 2024 that the data is from 2024. Don't act like you weren't trying anything else.

Covid was 2020. I'm doubtful the 2024 report is based entirely on numbers from 2020. I didn't look, and I doubt you did. But I'm doubtful, as I said.

I did look, most reports take years to be published because of the amount of data that's available. Usually its 4ish years old by the time it's released. This is just the nature of these reports. Its why the studies from 2015/2016 where the last ones prior to seeing the 2020/21 studies get released.

In any case, it's a tragic statistic regardless of that, and also no matter whether we're cutting off "children" at 18 or 19 - and that's a pretty sickening reason to handwave it away. Deaths are deaths, and these are our youth.

It's not, it's nuance that's being lost. The public hears kids, they think 5 year olds being killed, not a gang member who just had beef with another gang member who's now dead.

Do you not recognize how asinine it is to hinge your argument on this? Let's say it's the number 2 cause of death. Hell, let's say it's the number three cause of death.

It's not, suicide is the main cause of that number. Are you going to feel better because you put in a law that somehow magically stops people from offing themselves with a firearm but the suicide numbers don't drop they just use another tool? Will you stand up and call it a win then? Or will you realize that we have a problem with our society and our citizens need social support and reform first. One of those options will drastically reduce our violence and suicides...the other will not.

We have a problem and all some folks can do is nitpick about irrelevant bullshit that would not detract from the argument even if I accepted all the nitpicks.

I never said we don't have an issue. I've merely stated that guns aren't our issue and I've given solutions that will actually work, I'm not the one nitpicking things. Anti-2a groups are.

Anyhow, I somehow missed this bit of classic internet snark, so you can fuck off with this dismissive and inaccurate ad hom:

Let me guess, you’re like 20-23?

I was getting OUT of the military longer ago than that, which is why I can recognize that 19 is a child in all ways that are relevant to their likely level of maturity, and the tragedy of their deaths, plus be appropriately horrified at the continual resistance to doing anything at all about it.

Good Day, Sir.

I don't know how you got comments mixed up but you're thinking of some other user. I never questioned your age, this user did.

https://lemmy.world/comment/11054266

Not that it matters at all except to folks who want to deflect from the problem, but here's the press release that accompanies that 2024 report.

This is the report that cites the 2020/21 numbers.

It cites this source, among others, and I'm sure if I wasn't too lazy to crawl the actual PDF I'd find others: https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html

Yea which cites COVID numbers as I've previously stated.

In any case, if deflection, denial, and ad hom attacks are all you got, I see no reason to continue.

I'm not deflecting anything, and I've not denied anything either, and the attacks are not from me as I've pointed out, you must have copied that other users comments thinking they were mine.