Guns:Now Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens.
“ Guns are the leading cause of death for US children and teens, since surpassing car accidents in 2020.
Firearms accounted for nearly 19% of childhood deaths (ages 1-18) in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wonder database. Nearly 3,600 children died in gun-related incidents that year. That’s about five children lost for every 100,000 children in the United States. In no other comparable country are firearms within the top four causes of mortality among children, according to a KFF analysis.”
Gun violence abounds in America with calls to rein in gun purchases every time a school shooting or other mass murder event takes place. The calls are harrowing for a week or so with new efforts to pass legislation while everyones’ emotions are still raw. The feelings fade and life goes back to the ‘new normal’ of mass shootings every few weeks. Now only the most violent shootings make national news and usually those that involve minors as victims. The latest Nashville shooting will soon be a memory and little or nothing will change. Very grim.
