WOW: Guns to surpass car accidents as leading cause of deaths among young people

[AtheistCrusader]

120. But we are talking about 'kids' 15 to 24.

At 18, you can buy a long gun. At 21, you can buy a pistol.

Yes, I'm all for safe storage, and keeping guns out of the hands of kids (or any ineligible user) but the demographic in the OP includes people old enough to walk out, to a store, and purchase a firearm for use on themselves, or others.

2/3 of all gun deaths are suicides.

I see two viable patches for that:

Accessible mental health care
Raise the age at which people can legally acquire/possess firearms.

You can only heap so much on the shoulders of 'adult' gun owners for this, when only 3 years of the lifespan in question is prohibited from legally acquiring their own guns.

(I personally see mental health care as the bigger nut to crack, because it will pay dividends across criminal mis-use of firearms (and other forms of violence) as well as self-destructive mis-use. Take away guns, and other forms of suicide are still available, and the rate of effectiveness will go up.)