Posted on 04/16/2023 7:47:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.
The gun death rate among children and teens – a measure that adjusts for changes in the nation’s population – rose from 2.4 fatalities per 100,000 minor residents in 2019 to 3.5 per 100,000 two years later, a 46% increase.
Both the number and rate of children and teens killed by gunfire in 2021 were higher than at any point since at least 1999, the earliest year for which information about those younger than 18 is available in the CDC’s mortality database.
The rise in gun deaths among children and teens is part of a broader recent increase in firearm deaths among Americans overall. In 2021, there were 48,830 gun deaths among Americans of all ages – by far the highest yearly total on record and up 23% from the 39,707 recorded in 2019, before the pandemic.
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Okay but that’s not a gun problem, that’s a cultural problem and most of us know who is responsible for that.
All men should be castrated, because rape.
Pencils write the bad poetry too.
Children...that can be an 18 year old gang banger
Reaping the rewards of the communist goals to break down America.
I believe John Lott wrote an article showing that the research for this study was faulty. I recall seeing it early today but cannot remember where I found the link.
“teens”
You are absolutely correct. I’m sure if you breakdown the stats you’ll find the vast majority of these “children” are big city gang bangers killing each with a healthy dose of innocent kids caught in the crossfire.
The Pew Research Center...releasing a study on gun deaths...
Anyway, I blame the increase on the Biden administration. He gets elected and there’s blood in the streets.
Pew pew pew
12-18 yr old needs to be totally divorced from <12.
Plus breakout by “Race”.
Then we can talk.
Pew stinks, by definition.
And cars kill 50,000 a year. Outlaw cars.
Back out the “teenage” gangbangers’ deaths and the problem goes away.
Don’t put any faith in polls anymore.
Over 2/3 of large city gang members are under 18. Those are also the ones most likely to be violent because they’re young and trying to prove themselves to the gang leaders. Those are the “children” these slanted articles portray as gun victims.
https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/96natyouthgangsrvy/surv_6a.html
Lots of black children live in democrat hellhole cities... that’s why their murder rates is so high.
Guns don’t kill on their own... there’s a thug/goon pulling the trigger...
We are talking black teenagers here. Children and other ethnic groups are extremely rarely killed by guns.
And spoons make people fat.
Next these pinheads will try to correlate gun sales to deaths by firearms. “See, all those gun sales are causing gun deaths”.
More crap from the govt. mouthpieces.
Anymore, these “children “ are 14 year old gang bangers doing the gun thefts and shootings on order of older thugs
Considering Obamacare redefined “child” to be 26 I am dubious of these statistics.
However the problem race has been very busy shooting themselves.
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