Are other causes broken down? Coz, even using such catch all's as "motor vehicles" "Other injuries" or "congenital disease" you still don't get another category as high as guns. And you say that like 20% of youth death being to guns is some minor thing.
For example suicides are broken down by methods - firearms, suicides and drugs being the notable ones, of roughly similar scale. But if you added up all suicides regardless by method they would be bigger than homicides, especially homicides by gun.
It's really not. It's ridiculous that you're pushing back so hard on the idea "Too many young Americans die from gun injuries." Like really? That's an objectionable statement to you? 4,000 something youth getting shot is the system working as intended and worth it for your "freedom"? Also, suicides account for like a third of the youth gun deaths. To quote a fine article:
This is "have you stopped beating your wife" level of objectionable statement.
There is no "appropriate" number, as in there is no appropriate statement, hence those who use such statements should be counterattacked for attempts at verbal-emotional manipulation.
I will give you a right wing equivalent:
It's ridiculous that you're pushing back so hard on the idea that "Too many young Americans die from gang crime."
In other words, it sure looks a hell of a lot like youth suicide in America is inflated by an ammount pretty strongly correlating with the number of gun suicides.
Still gun suicides are not even a majority of suicides. To imply that if guns magically disappeared suicide would fall by the same amount is utterly delusional. What next, trashbag and rope control? (see: suffocation suicides).
Lol, well we keep hearing about those terrifying immigrant gangs in the UK, Germany and Sweden right? How's their youth mortality rate looking? I'd love to see what statistics you're looking at to suggest that the US is as lawless as Honduras.
US consists from everything from calm midwestern towns to Chicago ghettos. Of course the average won't be as bad.
This is a story illustrative of how this happens in one of places where it happens the most:
The realistic painting in vivid colors by Adolfo Davis shows two sides of the same street, one bathed in sunlight with a college and an art center and the word “choices” written along t…
www.chicagotribune.com
This high-stakes intersection that Chicago's youths find themselves in has been brought into sharp relief in recent months in a series of troubling crimes: a 16-year-old already serving a probation sentence for three carjackings accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Melissa Ortega; another 16-year-old on electronic monitoring for two gun cases charged with killing a 15-year-old by shooting him first in the head, then nine times as he lay on the sidewalk; and an 11-year-old cited in six different carjacking incidents, including some that involved armed robbery.
In a sane country, teenagers with such rap sheets would not be free to walk the streets. Even one carjacking should be enough to get into a correctional facility until at least 18, nevermind 3. This is what light handed "NOOO muh school to prison pipeline" governance on youth justice gives you. Violent teenage criminals with a sense of impunity somewhat grounded in their past experience.
Well then, I guess the solution is more guns, right? Only a good guy with a gun can stop a bad guy with a gun? Except if guns do stop gun violence, why does America still have this terrible gang problem you keep talking about?
The solution is to lock up the people who should not be trusted with a gun, knife, or a baseball bat. Many of them would even hospitalize someone with their bare hands.
Hell, considering the age they sure didn't legally buy that gun anyway. They stole it or got it from their gang pals. Destroy the gangs, lock up all their members regardless of age, and shit on gang culture in the media so badly that it will be seen worse than the KKK, and then the problem will be cut by a three quarters at very minimum.
Also, oh the irony, have you seen the gun laws in the specific places that have the most gang violence? Let's just say Chicago surely is no Texas.
Why does it still have so much gun death overall, and why is it that any sensible American parent should statistically worry more that their kid will end up dead with a bullet in them, than they need to worry about car accidents, or medical issues despite the crappy health care?
Again, you should stop throwing the verbal manipulation at me right now, because i'm better at it and one doesn't play a player. The detailed table has a nice injury vs non-injury death division. Non-injury deaths add up to double the motor deaths, so even now it's certainly higher, but hey, if you split all the gun deaths by firearm caliber then they could never be a "leading cause", while disease deaths are split by individual disease.