Thus he equates elderly people with cancer committing suicide with young people driving recklessly.
Read the original article he’s using as a source - he’s “cherry picking” & manipulating (i.e. he’s using all gun deaths & traffic accident #s & attributing them to ‘young people’ to make his meme work). http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/americas-top-killing-machine/384440/
Though even as fatal transportation incidents dropped in 2013, they accounted for two in five fatalities in the workplace in the United States that year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
CDC data on firearms offers a more complicated picture, in part because of how the agency categorizes causes of death. Gun deaths can include suicides, homicides, accidental firearms discharges, and even legal killings—but the overall data picture is incomplete.
It’s also true that as the gun homicide rate has declined in the United States, suicides now account for the majority of gun deaths, according to Pew.
Today, overall accidents are the fifth leading cause of death, according to CDC data. Americans are most likely to die from heart disease—followed by cancer, chronic respiratory disease, and stroke.
Thus he equates elderly people with cancer committing suicide with young people driving recklessly.