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Why doesn't the data back that up then? Do you really think that toddlers blow their own heads off because America has an iherently murderous identity and it has nothing to do with reckless access to guns?


It doesn't seem like you've done the work of actually engaging with the data. Toddlers don't blow their own heads off at any appreciable rate. There are a few hundred "accidental" firearms deaths in the U.S., a nation of 330,000,000 people, in a given year (almost all of which are adults). Many of those are not really accidents (people who plan to commit suicide want insurance money, religious burial, etc.).




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