Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at ‘alarming’ rate, study reveals

[Bob Blaylock]

Because they include 16-18 year olds in their definition of "children."

Technically, they are “children”. Minors. But it is not at all uncommon to see studies of this sort count people up to 24 years of age as “children”, with the obvious intent of using criminal gang members to inflate their claims.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Who gets to determine what an "alarming rate" is? About 110 children were killed in accidental shootings so far in 2023 but around 5,000 kids and teenagers died from Fentanyl overdoses.

And don't forget abortion, which the one-legged British faggot supports, by which more children die than from all other causes combined.

 

[Blues Man]

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at âalarmingâ rate, study reveals

Data shows firearm fatalities are leading cause of accidental death in children, while poisonings have also risen in past decade

www.theguardian.com

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.

This is heartening news and a sure sign that real Americans are exercising their GOD GIVEN RIGHTS . The work of the NRA heroes and their bought and paid for politicians is starting to bear fruit.

Some commies, as they cradle their dead infant, may whine about this but who said that freedom was eas ? Every other country in the world is jealous of US gun freedoms.

Omlettes and eggs people.

Ah yes the study that classified anyone under the age of 20 as a "child"

 

[Blues Man]

 

[westwall]

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at âalarmingâ rate, study reveals

Data shows firearm fatalities are leading cause of accidental death in children, while poisonings have also risen in past decade

www.theguardian.com

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.

This is heartening news and a sure sign that real Americans are exercising their GOD GIVEN RIGHTS . The work of the NRA heroes and their bought and paid for politicians is starting to bear fruit.

Some commies, as they cradle their dead infant, may whine about this but who said that freedom was eas ? Every other country in the world is jealous of US gun freedoms.

Omlettes and eggs people.

No, gangbangers, and scumbags, are allowed to roam freely about to cause mayhem.

Declare open season on them and violent crime plummets.

But the demofascists don't care about people. They just want power.

 

[whitehall]

The editorial is a liberal British based news source that is orientated towards British law and the convoluted U.K. quasi monarchy. There is no 2nd Amendment in the U.K. as a matter of fact King Chuck 2 could probably have you beheaded for possession of an AR 15. The Guardian focuses on the tragic deaths of children who are accidentally killed by firearms but conveniently ignores the fentanyl deaths that have escalated to 5,000. The Guardian has no business lecturing the Colonies about American freedoms.

 

[2aguy]

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at âalarmingâ rate, study reveals

Data shows firearm fatalities are leading cause of accidental death in children, while poisonings have also risen in past decade

www.theguardian.com

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.

This is heartening news and a sure sign that real Americans are exercising their GOD GIVEN RIGHTS . The work of the NRA heroes and their bought and paid for politicians is starting to bear fruit.

Some commies, as they cradle their dead infant, may whine about this but who said that freedom was eas ? Every other country in the world is jealous of US gun freedoms.

Omlettes and eggs people.

And that is another lie......this is why we know that nothing you say about the gun issues will be the truth....

Refuting the Left's Favorite Lie: No, Guns Don't Kill More Children Than Cars - The Truth About Guns

As this CNN article discussed “children and teens,” consider the data on children – ages 0-12. For this cohort, firearm-related injuries are not the leading causes of death and are not higher than motor vehicle deaths. The number of motor vehicle deaths in this age group is more than double that of firearms-related deaths. The number of motor vehicle deaths in the 0-14 age group is more than 50-percent higher than firearm-related deaths. Moreover, when examining the cohort ages 0-17, motor vehicle deaths are still higher than firearm-related deaths.
This shifts when examining the cohort ages 15 to 19. Over 80-percent of the firearm-related deaths that occur in the 0-19 age group happen among the juveniles and young adults ages 15-19. This disparity shouldn’t be surprising.
The 15 to 19 cohort is far more often engaged in the type of street crime that can give rise to firearm-related violence and that many jurisdictions have decided to address in a more lenient manner in recent years. The conflation of this age group with young children is even more absurd when one considers that in the vast majority of jurisdictions those 15 and older can be prosecuted as adults.
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Racial and ethnic differences in gun deaths among kids are stark. In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population that year was Black. Much smaller shares of gun deaths among children and teens in 2021 involved White (32%), Hispanic (17%) and Asian (1%) victims.
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Looked at another way, Black children and teens were roughly five times as likely as their White counterparts to die from gunfire in 2021. There were 11.8 gun deaths per 100,000 Black children and teens that year, compared with 2.3 gun deaths per 100,000 White children and teens. The gun death rate among Hispanic children and teens was also 2.3 deaths per 100,000 in 2021, while it was lower among Asian children and teens (0.9 per 100,000).

There are also major racial and ethnic differences in the types of gun deaths involving children and teens. In 2021, a large majority of gun deaths involving Black children and teens (84%) were homicides, while 9% were suicides. Among White children and teens, by contrast, the majority of gun deaths (66%) were suicides, while a much smaller share (24%) were homicides.

Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years

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73.6 million children in 2020 in the United States



Unintentional gun deaths by gun ages <1 to 14..........from the Centers for Disease Control...



2020



93



Intentional gun murder ages <1-14.....



394



Intentional gun murder ages 15-19.....



(keeping in mind these are majority criminals, involved in gangs, drugs and other crime.....and when do you consider an 17,18, 19 year old a child?)



2,417



Unintentional motor vehicle deaths of children 2020.......



ages ....... <1-14



1,315



ages......15-19



2,638



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Number of children in the U.S. 2021 | Statista



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The National Gang Center (NGC), a function of the federal government, tells us that in recent years, between 35 and 41% of street gang members are under age 18. They also note that street gang recruitment begins at age 14, when the social effects of puberty take control (as well as early onset testosterone poisoning).



Ponder that: criminology separates teens from traditional children due to changing behaviors and capacities for risk. For guns, those demarcations should be enforced as well.



The CDC table above showed that for ages 0–14, guns were not a major risk. Hence, the inaccurate claim that “guns are the leading cause of death for children” includes teens, which means it has to include teenage street gang members.



Given what the NGC says about entry into street gangs (age 14), the percentages of gang members that are teens (minimum 35%), and that American street gangs are stupendously violent, you would expect to see gun homicides rise steeply in the teen years.



And it does. Factor in that street gangs are largely metropolitan and that gun play between black street gangs is the worst of gang violence, and the rest of this chart makes even more sense.



Guns Not Leading Cause of Child Deaths | Gun Facts

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First of all, the number of firearm deaths for school-age children drops quite a bit when you do not include 18-year-olds.
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Removing 18-year-olds would drop the gun death number to 28,559 — just slightly fewer than the total for the military and police.
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In fact, 17- and 18-year-olds make up almost 56 percent of the gun deaths of school-age children. The numbers also drop significantly — 60 percent — if suicides are removed.
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We are also wary when a single change in the data set — from age 18 to 17 — reduces the number enough that the statistic is no longer correct.

Biden’s startling statistic on school-age gun deaths

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[2aguy]

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at âalarmingâ rate, study reveals

Data shows firearm fatalities are leading cause of accidental death in children, while poisonings have also risen in past decade

www.theguardian.com

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.

This is heartening news and a sure sign that real Americans are exercising their GOD GIVEN RIGHTS . The work of the NRA heroes and their bought and paid for politicians is starting to bear fruit.

Some commies, as they cradle their dead infant, may whine about this but who said that freedom was eas ? Every other country in the world is jealous of US gun freedoms.

Omlettes and eggs people.

Between 1939-1945 European socialists murdered between 15-20 million innocent men, women and children. These were not casualties due to the fighting, these were people rounded up and murdered by their governments, under the control of the German socialists.

Over 1 million children were murdered.

The gun murder number for the United States over our entire 247 year history?

Around 2,460,000.......

The governments of Europe murdered more children in 6 years than in our entire history of gun murder in the U.S......and yet you think you have some superior position on this issue?

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Who gets to determine what an "alarming rate" is? About 110 children were killed in accidental shootings so far in 2023 but around 5,000 kids and teenagers died from Fentanyl overdoses. The government is trying to educate people about firearms and kids with massive campaigns but almost nothing is done about the importation of fentanyl by illegal aliens. Which situation does the Guardian address? The easy liberal one.

Its amazing that you can rationalise this. A real gun nut who doesnt give a fuck about anybody.

 

[westwall]

Its amazing that you can rationalise this. A real gun nut who doesnt give a fuck about anybody.

Rationalize? It is FAR easier to reduce the overdose deaths than it is to reduce the already vanishingly small number of children who die from accidents. That's the problem with dumb shits, like you, you are only interested in gun control for POWER. Nothing more.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Even by those fake and misleading metrics, any surge in people whacking people with a gun is due to black on black violence. Let's tell the entire truth, OP.

 

[Lord Long Rod]

Hey, prick (Tommy). I notice that you use an "s" instead of a "z" in words like "rationalise". Are you a limey prick?

 

[Resnic]

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at âalarmingâ rate, study reveals

Data shows firearm fatalities are leading cause of accidental death in children, while poisonings have also risen in past decade

www.theguardian.com

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.

This is heartening news and a sure sign that real Americans are exercising their GOD GIVEN RIGHTS . The work of the NRA heroes and their bought and paid for politicians is starting to bear fruit.

Some commies, as they cradle their dead infant, may whine about this but who said that freedom was eas ? Every other country in the world is jealous of US gun freedoms.

Omlettes and eggs people.

And who are the parents of these children?

I mean there has been a general rise in crime, drugs, and most unacceptable behavior in a decent society. So to expect a equal rise in deaths of children is to be expected.

Our society is losing its morals, and values and standards so this is a by product of it

Guns have nothing to do with those children's deaths, their parents are to blame. Much like criminals, dopeheads and crazy people are to blame for the rise in gun related deaths in adult

So spin it all you like but those children's deaths could have been avoided not with more gun control, but a better society.

I'd rather live in a society of decent people than one of more laws and rules.

 

[lennypartiv]

Tommy wants to take our freedoms away from us.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

So spin it all you like but those children's deaths could have been avoided not with more gun control, but a better society.

Tainted Tommy, of course, supports everything that is degrading our society (his, too) and opposes everything that would improve society.

 

[2aguy]

Its amazing that you can rationalise this. A real gun nut who doesnt give a fuck about anybody.

No one is rationalizing anything. We are pointing out the truth. You present lies that try to use criminal gang members from 15-sometimes as old as their 20s as "kids," in order to falsely inflate deaths of children......get called out on it, and you can't respond to the calling out.

Europe murdered over 1 million children in just 6 years...more children murdered by their governments after taking guns away from their citizens than all the children murdered by guns in the U.S. in our 247 year history, and you think you have a point.....

 

[2aguy]

Rationalize? It is FAR easier to reduce the overdose deaths than it is to reduce the already vanishingly small number of children who die from accidents. That's the problem with dumb shits, like you, you are only interested in gun control for POWER. Nothing more.

They aren't even "accidents." The majority of these deaths are by gang members shooting other gang members and other criiminals....they are just young criminals.

The real problem, which tommy and the other leftists don't care about is fatherless homes....which creates the generational crime which creates the generational poverty, that leads children into a life of crime and violence.......that is all good for Tommy because as a leftist, he really simply hates people in general....

 

[TheGreatSatan]

What do the gun nuts propose ?

Gun safety taught in schools

What do the people who want ALL the banned books in Florda put back in schools propose?

 

[Bob Blaylock]

What do the people who want ALL the banned books in Florda put back in schools propose?

Those would be the ones who want to fuck children.

 

[TheGreatSatan]

Those would be the ones who want to fuck children.