It's misleading because it's a lie. It's 1-19 year olds. Check the data.
It's not a lie, that's how children are defined in the data. If you have a problem with this, go and rant at the statisticians.
You say "Western country" to purposely exclude Korea?
No, I say 'Western country' to include all countries with Western culture. Anyway, why bring up Korea? Does North or South Korea have a higher firearm death rate than the US? Does North or South Korea have a higher firearm suicide rate than the US?
Yeah cultural this and that in Korea, but the U.S. is an rather unstable country with high mental illness a lack of safety nets.
LOL, it's not just mental illness and lack of safety nets. Fix those tomorrow, and the US would still beat every other Western country in firearm deaths by a country mile.
I don't removing guns would have much impact on suicide rates.
And yet it does, as we see in every other Western nation except Greenland. Every single one. Can you explain why?
And it's misleading because it doesn't mention that. People will think based on that statistic that 30k+ people are gunned down in the street each year, but that's not true.
No they won't, because the links I've provided show that suicide deaths are included, and when you say 'firearm deaths' who in their right mind would assume that doesn't include firearm suicides? There's nothing misleading about that infographic, it uses the data precisely as it's intended to be used.
The thread title says mass shooting... your infographics isn't related, so why bring it up?
I was replying to a post about the impossibility of fixing US gun culture, so it's entirely related. US firearm statistics are driven by the culture and the national psyche. They are unique to the US for this reason.
Such a weird obsession with the US, I care more about what's happening in the UK.
I care strongly about what's happening in every country where I have friends and family. That includes the US. Even if I didn't have friends and family in the US, I would still care because I care about other human beings.