![]() ![]() children live in homes with unsecured firearms, according to Shannon Watts of the advocacy organization Moms Demand Action. Similar innovations are possible in how we manage guns, he says. Innovations like seatbelt laws and changes in how cars are built have made them less deadly during a crash. “More people drive today than in the 1970s, and motor vehicle related injury rates are much lower,” Goldstick says. Goldstick pointed to significant investments in car vehicle safety as a model for policymakers to follow today for making gun injuries less frequent and deadly. ![]() “There are ways to reduce injuries without banning guns,” says Jason Goldstick, PhD, a statistician at the University of Michigan, who led the study. Gun deaths among children are preventable, both researchers and advocates say. The findings were reported April 20 in The New England Journal of Medicine. Homicide was the leading cause of gun deaths, followed by suicide and then accidental shootings, although the reason for some deaths could not be determined, according to the researchers. In this group, firearms accounted for more than 15 deaths per 100,000 children in 2020 - up from about 12 such deaths in 2019. Guns accounted for more than 45,000 deaths among all age groups in 2020, also a record, according to the CDC.Īlthough gun deaths rose across nearly every racial and ethnic group, the increase was greatest among Black children. But sharp rises in such fatalities since then, especially in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic began, pushed the death toll above all other causes among Americans in this age group. Gunshots were the second leading cause of death in 2016 among children, the researchers report. To observers of gun violence in this country, the grim statistical marker has been all but inevitable. ![]() In 2020, 4,357 children age 1-19, or about six in 100,000, died from a gun-related injury, the researchers report, slightly exceeding the number for auto accidents (3,913) and greatly exceeding deaths caused by suffocation (1,411) or drowning (966). ![]()
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