Don't have a dog in this race, but were they also tracking deatha from auto accidents and the like? Because if it was part of a big pie chart of how people die, then no problem. If it was specifically only about guns, then it was political.

Answering that question takes less time than the comment took to type.

https://www.cdc.gov/transportation-safety/about/index.html

All external injuries (mostly traumas, but also burns, poison, frostbite, etc.) that result in deaths, no matter their intention (murder, accident, suicide) have 2 chapters dedicated in the International Classification of Diseases 10 (also 11). Yes, tracking what harms and kills people is kinda important from the public health standpoint, so that there are resources to deal with the injuries and educate in case of prevention. It also happens to be interested in work related injuries too!

https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en#/XIX

https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en#/XX

> but were they also tracking deatha from auto accidents and the like?

I mean, are we doing learned helplessness tonight or just pretending for rhetorical reasons or...?

https://www.cdc.gov/transportation-safety/index.html