Gun violence becomes leading cause of death among US youth, data shows

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: The Guardian

Gun violence overtook car accidents as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the US in 2020, according to a report from the University of Michigan.

The finding was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday as part of longer term research effort from the university’s Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention (IFIP).

An analysis of mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed a nearly 30% increase in gun-related deaths among Americans up to age 19 between 2019 and 2020, the researchers said. These deaths include incidents of suicide, accidental shootings and homicides, with homicides outpacing the other two categories.

The number of deaths from car accidents and gun homicides among infants, children and young adults has been growing closer since 2016. Drug overdoses and poisoning increased by more than 80% between 2019 and 2020, the researchers found, to become the third leading cause of death among this demographic.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/us-gun-violence-leading-cause-of-death-youth

[Achilleaze]

1. Republicans are responsible for this evil

This needless evil is their doing...And they claim they care about babies and children. What foul BS.

[pazzyanne]

6. They only care about babies until they are born.

Then the babies and their parents are on their own!

[twodogsbarking]

2. There should be constant reminders of this on TV but the networks

would lose viewers. Priorities.

[doc03]

3. To get a drivers license kids take drivers ed in school and have to pass a written test

and a driving test. All you need is a gun and some ammo to start killing, it's our 2nd amendment right.
Thanks NRA.

[Turbineguy]

4. The republicans want to save Putin trouble

and ammunition.

[dalton99a]

5. A very beautiful picture

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[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. CDC data

For ages 0 - 19 there were 4129 firearm related deaths in 2020.
Of those 2811 were homicides, 1293 were suicides and 25 due to legal intervention.
This is across a population of 81,254,355 for that age range.


For the same age range there were 3209 firearm related deaths during 2019 .
Of those 2023 were homicides, 1167 were suicides and 19 due to legal intervention.
This is across a population of 81,679,568 for that age range.


While suicides were up 11%, homicides were up 39% in spite of a decrease in population for that age range.

[usajumpedtheshark]

8. I posted this same information that was a Forbes article but it was locked because the article date

was from two days prior to my post. This date requirement seems strange since all of these entries are preserved anyways.

[IronLionZion]

9. Arm the children so they can defend themselves

[NullTuples]

10. Meanwhile the SCOTUS is likely to rule that everyone has a right to concealed carry

Ruling is expected by the end of June. If they find for the gun owners it is highly likely that it will be used to dismantle gun control laws in every state.

New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen

[riversedge]

11. so many states have this law alreaddy. damn

[Turbineguy]

12. Does the NRA know?

Dead kids don't grow up to buy more guns.

[keithbvadu2]

13. 'Your Dead Kids Don't Trump My Constitutional Rights' To Have Guns

To the gun industry, dead children are merely collateral damage/acceptable losses for gun industry profits and political donations.

The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

Now it has become an industry owned shill for the sale of more guns and the enrichment of its leaders.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/27/joe-the-plumber-guns_n_5397981.html

Joe The Plumber: ‘Your Dead Kids Don’t Trump My Constitutional Rights’ To Have Guns

Ironic how he chose that verb back in 2014.

[Skittles]

14. "pro-lifers" are fine with that

SOP for GOP