Debate: Where are you Republicans?
Side: No it's cool

In 2016 alone, there were 495 incidents of accidental firearm deaths.Ok. I referred to 2018 CDC data and you referred to 2016 from another source that says the same thing, as if that made a different one point. In both years the number of accidental gun deaths (<500) was very small by comparison to other kinds of accidental deaths. In 2018 guns accounted for less than .5% of the accidental deaths; about the same as machine accidents. Meanwhile 3491people were poisoned by non-drugs (2,1% of accidental deaths); eat organic because chemicals are bad. 3710 people drowned(2.2%); pools are dangerous, ban em. Falling and suffocating are giant hazards, but they mostly affect old people who are a drain on the free healthcare system, so in the name of expanding that free healthcare let's just not count the loss of thise additional costs to the system. Traffic is a huge killer too, but vehicles are a lethal weapon we all enjoy so nevermind that. How about drug poisoning? Top cause of accidental deaths come from drugs. 58,908 people died from accidental drug poisoning in 2018 (35.2%)(that's down from earlier). Good thing we have experts doling out our script drugs like xanax and fentynal so they don't end up on the street... nevermind.To reiterate the context, of the CDC's 19 listed causes of accidental death, guns were 17th in 2018. Accidental gun deaths occur mainly to those under 25 years old. In 2014, 2,549 children (age 0-19) died by gunshot and an additional 13,576 were injuredTalk about dishonest wording. First, children are under 18. Second, you go straight from accidental deaths to gun deaths overall. So let's get accurate. CDC data shows that in 2014, 73 minors (under 18) died of accidental gun death. That's tied with falls for cause of death at 10th accounting for 1.4%. The total number of juveniles killed from guns in 2014 from all intents was 1,330, not 2,549. That's just shy of 16% of total juvi deaths that year. Not small, but smaller than your bogus post. Of course most juvi deaths are accidental (63.8%) and of those only 1.4% are caused by guns.It is so easy and painless to commit suicide with a a gun, that people who would not ordinarily have committed suicide in fact do so because they have access to firearms.Yes, guns increase the chances of an attempt becoming a successful follow-through for suicide, but guns are banned in Japan. If someone wants to kill themselves, a gun ban doesn't stop them.Why not mention that the US has the 34th highest rate of suicide out of all the countries on Earth? It has the highest rate of suicide per person of ALL the developed countries, with the sole exceptions of Belgium, Japan and Sweden.You forgot South Korea, Switzerland, Austria, India, and France. I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Sweden did slightly better in the US in n 2020 according to worldpopulationreview.com, but they are neck and neck. Apparently people are not very suicidal in Syria.These statistics are inconvenient for your absurd narrative that guns are safe if people only use them to shoot themselves instead of each other.I've used statistics from the get go, and you get angry when I do.