Being Shot With a Gun is Now the Leading Cause of Death for Children in America, Again
Yes, again.
I originally wrote the following dark satire about the predictable nature of “firearm-related death,”… and now we have another. This is what happens most days in America. We have startups with bullet vending machines now, too.
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, children being shot to death is now the leading cause of death for children in the United States of America. It’s not a leading cause of death. It’s the number one leading cause of death. Number one. With a bullet. And that’s both a terrible pun and literally true. And I understand it was painful to read something that terrible, but it’s even more painful to be shot with a literal bullet. 10 out of 10 kids agree.
Want to know how you can tell something is a Public Health emergency? When it becomes the leading cause of death.
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