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Tuesday, June 20th, 2017

Kids and Guns: Shootings Now Third Leading Cause of Death for U.S. Children

Author:     RYAN BORT
Source:     Newsweek
Publication Date:     6/19/17 AT 11:01 AM
 Link: Kids and Guns: Shootings Now Third Leading Cause of Death for U.S. Children
Stephan:   There is no other developed nation in the world that has child gun death figures like the United States. To the NRA it is just a cost of business. They and their followers want silencers, mentally ill people with the right to arm, and an armed hidden carry general society. We are a very sick country. As a result 92 a day, 644 people a week, 33,000 a year die by gun fire in America every year. As this report lays out a horrifying number are children. Notice also that there is a strong correlation between whether a state is Red values, and the rate of child gun death.

Credit: Mother Jones

Few stories are more heartbreaking than those involving children who are injured or killed by gunshots. It isn’t hard to find them: In June alone, a 6-year-old accidentally shot and killed a 4-year-old in South Carolina, a father accidentally shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter in Indiana and an 8-year-old Mississippi boy was accidentally shot in the chest. His grandparents drove him to the hospital, but he died 45 minutes later. Sadly, the list of child gun deaths goes on.

Though we constantly see examples in the news, child gun injuries and deaths may be even more prevalent in the United States than we realized. A study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics showed that an average of 5,790 children in the United States receive emergency room treatment for gun-related injuries each year, and around 21 percent of those injuries are unintentional. The study also found that an average of 1,297 children die annually from gun-related injuries, making guns the third-leading cause of […]

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