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by t-writescode
2444 days ago
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I would put money on that being absolutely, positively, patently false. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if data could be generated that shows cyber bullying on Facebook results in more child suicides than children murdered in school shootings per year. |
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> child suicides
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr67/nvsr67_04.pdf
> In 2016, suicides numbered 2,553, while homicides numbered 1,963
> Firearms were the leading method of homicide for persons aged 10–19 years during 1999–2016, accounting for 87% of all homicides in 2016
> Suicide involving suffocation was the leading method among children and adolescents aged 10–19 years in 2016, slightly outnumbering suicide involving firearms (1,103 and 1,102, respectively).
There are some age and gender difference to the method chosen for suicide.
We probably need to include some deaths by unintentional injury, although 85% of those deaths are motor vehicle traffic, drowning, and poisoning.
I'm still getting to grips with the way the US counts deaths by suicide and I still find it a real struggle to find the data and to understand what they've counted and how they've counted it, which is why I only use the CDC data.