Horrifying new data shows that gun deaths among U.S. children have risen by 50% in just 2 years, reaching an all-time high as conservatives have worked to loosen the country’s gun laws at a record pace.
Students participate in the Show Up to End Gun Violence rally at Colorado State Capitol in Denver, Colorado on March 24, 2023.Horrifying new data shows that gun deaths among U.S. children have surged at an unprecedented rate in recent years, reaching an all-time high as conservatives have worked to loosen the country’s gun laws at a record pace.
Between 2019 and 2021, the number of children under the age of 19 killed by guns increased by an astounding 46 percent when adjusted for population changes, accordingof data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . This marks the sharpest rise in child gun deaths since the CDC began collecting such data in 1999, and is an increase from 2.4 deaths per 100,000 children in the U.S. in 2019 to 3.5 per 100,000, just two years later.
This increase has brought the number of child gun deaths of any cause — including deaths from homicide, accidents and suicide — to a record high, from 1,732 children dying from guns in 2019, to 2,281 in 2020, to 2,590 child gun deaths in 2021, or an average of seven children a day. Homicide was the most common cause of gun deaths among children in 2021 at 60 percent, followed by suicide at 32 percent; the main causes were flipped among adults, for whom 42 percent of gun deaths were due to homicide, while suicide accounted for 55. The data also showed a huge racial disparity, with Black children five times more likely to die from gunfire than white children.
The increase in child gun deaths is part of a 23 percent increase in gun deaths among Americans of all ages, which hit a record high of 48,830 in 2021.
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