Posted on 06/19/2017 4:41:53 PM PDT by Ennis85
About 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found. Researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year. Boys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths while black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to the study. More than half of these deaths were homicides while 38% were ruled suicide. The study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6% of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries.
"Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among US children aged one to 17 years and contribute substantially each year to premature death, illness and disability of children," said CDC's Katherine Fowler, who led the study. "About 19 children a day die or are medically treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound in the US," she told Reuters. CDC researchers examined national data in what they describe as "the most comprehensive examination of current firearm-related deaths and injuries among children in the United States to date". The study found a 60% increase in gun suicides from 2007-15, according an analysis of national injury records.
Suicide was most likely to occur when children were dealing with stressful circumstances or relationship problems with a boyfriend, girlfriend or family member, the study revealed. White children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide. Accidental gun deaths appeared to happen most frequently among children playing with firearms.
The study comes as a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot himself in the face and died on Sunday. Police in Monroe County have not charged anyone in the boy's death.
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“CHILDREN”:
At 2 am at Gas ‘N Sip, Jose shoots LeRoy in a drug-deal gone bad.
WHAT THEY WANT U 2 THINK:
A gun jumped up and shot through the temple a perfectly behaved, 10 y.o. blonde girl singing Edelweiss.
Over 300,000 children are. Slaughtered by planned parenthood every year funded by American taxpayers
Fortunately someone noticed it approaching and they quickly organized an anti-violence march to turn it away.
When it got back home I locked it in separate hard sided case to keep it from corrupting the others.
I dont know what to do but I have to do something! This monster has to be stopped!
Virginia Gov. said 93 million die every day. I smell false news somewhere.
Apparently, car accidents ARE the leading cause of child deaths.
A lot of children also die by accidental drowning.
1,300 studies are killed every year after examining the internals.
CDC creates the result it wants.
And?
Are we supposed to believe democrats care about children?
He corrected himself in that interview, as soon as a reporter contested his pronouncement. But it’s interesting that his first impulse was to cite ‘millions’.
The majority of them were killed by guns in the hands of Chicago hoodlums.
Interesting fact: almost none of these gun deaths occurred while the victim was doing homework.
I guess they didn't consider vacuums or scalpels or coat-hangers.
ML/NJ
I have known a fair amount of these in my lifetime.
2 were killed in a murder suicide by their parents and all of the rest were suicides.
If not a gun, they would hang themselves or leap to their deaths.
Sadly there was just a death in our township yesterday, on Father’s Day, of a 4 year old little boy. Shot himself in the face. Stupid morons that left a loaded gun in reach of a child.
Just saw the line in the article mentioning the four year old here..
But it’s interesting that his first impulse was to cite ‘millions’. ....
Millions is just a small number in the mind of a demonic rat
Guns kill people? Really? Strange, I’ve never heard of a gun jumping off the table, fire a bullet, killing someone.
Yep. Define “children”.
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