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Weapons are the main reason behind demise for US kids and teenagers, since surpassing automobile accidents in 2020.
Firearms accounted for almost 19% of childhood deaths (ages 1-18) in 2021, in line with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention Surprise database. Almost 3,600 kids died in gun-related incidents that 12 months. That’s about 5 kids misplaced for each 100,000 kids in the US. In no different comparable nation are firearms throughout the high 4 causes of mortality amongst kids, in line with a KFF evaluation.
The capturing at The Covenant College in Nashville on Monday, marks the sixteenth capturing this 12 months in grades Ok-12 and the deadliest for the reason that college capturing in Uvalde, Texas, final 12 months, in line with a CNN evaluation of college capturing knowledge. Six individuals — three kids and three adults — have been killed.
There have been 130 mass shootings up to now in 2023, the very best variety of shootings recorded at this level in any 12 months since no less than 2013, in line with knowledge from the Gun Violence Archive.
Little one and teenage mortality total surged in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic — pushed not by Covid-19 deaths however by deadly accidents, in line with a brand new research in JAMA. Firearms accounted for almost half of the rise in mortality in 2020.