In 2020, 4357 children aged 1-19, or approximately six in 100,000, died from a gun-related injury, the researchers report, modestly exceeding the number for auto accidents (3913) and greatly exceeding deaths caused by suffocation (1411) ordrowning(966). To observers of gun violence in this...
What is even more shocking and alarming is the fact that firearm-related deaths increased 13.5 percent from 2019 to 2020, and among children and adolescents they surged a staggering 30 percent. Statistics show that 12 children die from gun violence each day in the United States and another 32 ...
Citing statistics, the NPR said gun violence overtook car accidents to become the No. 1 cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents in 2020. After studying the rates of firearm deaths in the United States and other populous, high-income countries, researchers at the University of San F...
There have been 147 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are shot, excluding the shooter. Meanwhile, more than 11,500 people, including hundreds of children and teens,...
Federal data shows that gun violence became a leading cause of death among children and young adults at the start of this decade and was tied to more than 48,000 deaths among people of all ages in 2022. New York-based pediatric trauma surgeon Chethan Sathya, a National Institutes of Health...
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Gun violence has also been the No.1 cause of death for children in the United States since 2020 and it has by far the highest rate of gun deaths among rich countries. According to the Gun Violence Archive, as of Dec. 12 over 40,000 people in the U.S. had died...
“Why do we have to resort to violence because we’re mad?” LeGend’s mother, Charron Powell, asks. “What are other ways we can figure out an issue without harming somebody?” The U.S. saw 991 gun violence deaths among people 17 or younger in 2019, according to the...
Many experts assert that the high rate of gun deaths among young people is not inevitability and that it is possible to prevent such deaths by gathering data and doing research.
Design, Setting, and Participants: This national cross-sectional study used the Gun Violence Archive to identify all assault-related firearm deaths among youths aged 10 to 19 years occurring in the US between January 1, 2020, and June 30, 2022. Exposure: C...