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Now do the stats for people under 24 without gang affiliation... It's incredibly misleading for the Economist to tie that stat to Uvalde when in reality, it's 16-24 year old gang members shooting each other over the drug trade and personal beefs.

My first thought on seeing that statistic some weeks ago was that auto deaths must be falling.

They're not.

Remove gun violence. Remove self defense. Remove gang violence.

The chance of someone just waking up, loading a gun and shooting you point blank for no reason are very small.

I stopped going to San Francisco and Oakland years ago, so my odds of death are not anywhere near that. I also wouldn't go to Chicago and several other cities. When I drove down Baja Mexico, I also avoided stopped at all in Tijuana. If you don't go where the murders are, it's pretty safe out there still.

Is that including suicides?