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Originally Posted by stanley
Where on those pie charts does it mention "gun injuries resulting in death"?
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It doesn't. It also doesn't mention car accidents. It doesn't mention heart attacks. It doesn't mention melanoma. It doesn't mention drowning. What do you conclude from that?
If you read the entire pdf it will tell you how each diagnosis is categorized. ICD-10 is a huge collection of diagnoses that get into tiny detail.
Looking at the pie chart you will see, if the image is legible, that there are in the top five for almost all the age groups such things as suicide, homicide, accidental deaths. Some of those are gun, some are not. The pie chart does not tell you. But within each of those slices of the pie are some gun deaths.
The CDC has the fine detail on the deaths. The numbers are available using their
Wonder system if you want to do the work. The summary I cited tells you that when they looked at the fine detail they found that gun violence is in the top five causes for ages 1 to 64. I accept that statement and find nothing in the pie chart to make me question the conclusion.