While gun violence has for years been among the leading causes of death for US children, the COVID-19 pandemic sent itskyrocketing to the top causewhile widening racial disparities. In the years before the pandemic—from 2015 to early 2020—Black children in four major US cities were...
Gun deaths among children are preventable, both researchers and advocates say. “There are ways to reduce injuries without banning guns,” said Jason Goldstick, PhD, a statistician at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who led the study....
In 2021, more than 50 children were shot and killed in the U.S. city of Chicago. A mother of one of those children killed is now calling for the National Guard to be sent in to try and solve the issue. For more, check out our exclusive content on CGTN Now and ...
It is no exaggeration to call gun violence an epidemic in the US. Mass shootings at schools have already become a nightmare that haunts US children and their parents. Children are even required to receive training about how to react to a mass shooting in Texas which has the highest rate of...
Of those who have died from gun violence, 802 were teens and 173 were children. There were 18,854 total gun deaths, excluding suicides, in 2023, which was the lowest total since 2019. Mass shootings There have been more than 385 mass shootings in 2024 so far, whic...
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Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times the BSCA emphasizes background checks for gun buyers and crisis intervention programs, such as children's mental health. These are generalized control measures on the social level and cannot provide any ...
It is no exaggeration to call gun violence an epidemic in the US. Mass shootings at schools have already become a nightmare that haunts US children and their parents. Children are even required to receive training about how to react to a mass shooting in Texas which has the highest rate of...
Gun violence is a huge problem for U.S. children: across the world, nine out of every 10 children under 15 years old killed by guns was in the U.S. This study is one of the first to characterize the cost of initial hospitalization from gun-related injury in U.S. children 18 and u...
Medical News in Brief More than half of US adults or their family members have encountered gun violence: they've been threatened with a firearm; they've witnessed a shooting; or a relative has been killed by a gun, including by suicide, according to nationally representative poll of ...