discussion GUN: #1 Cause of Death for Children Under 19yo in US

[frenchyisback]

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For the first time in more than a decade, guns were the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in 2020, with researchers noting firearm homicides disproportionately affect younger people in the U.S. 

Researchers...  found more than 4,300 individuals ages 1 to 19 died across the U.S. as a result of firearms in 2020. 

Previous analysis showed that through 2016, firearm-related injuries were second only to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death among children and adolescents. However, since 2016 that gap has narrowed and within just four years firearm-related injuries surpassed motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death in that age group. 

From 2019 to 2020, the rate of firearm-related deaths for all types, suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined, among children and adolescents was at 29.5 percent — twice as high as the relative increase among the general population. 

Researchers said more than 45,000 people across the U.S. died from firearms in 2020, regardless of age, which is more than a 13 percent increase compared to 2019. The change was attributed largely to an increase in firearm homicides, which saw a 33.4 percent increase from 2019 to 2020, while firearm suicides also increased by 1.1 percent.

 

Medical experts at Harvard University have noted that children as young as 3-years-old may be strong enough to pull the trigger on a handgun and three out of four children living in a house with a gun know where the gun is — even if their parents think they don’t. 

 

 

 

Thank you Bernie for voting to give Gun Manufacturer immunity from prosecution

A true progressive hero

[MALAMENTE]

[Peroxide]

… you choose to throw Bernie Sanders of all people under the bus when discussing GUN CONTROL?

 

Republicans are hilarious.

[Jotham]

[Alongoria13]

No one is shocked x

[Bosque]

"No way to prevent this", says only nation where this regularly happens

[Communion]

Friendly reminder for all non-Americans (gun violence is bad in America but is disproportionately covered over suicide) and conservative Americans that firearm suicides vastly outnumber firearm homicides and yet we have a Democratic president who says he would veto Medicare For All. Gun-related deaths are largely an issue of mental illness and our refusal to join the developed world in guaranteeing healthcare as a human right is seeing our children perish before us.

 

Those who don't support M4A have blood on their hands. 

[byzantium]

1 hour ago, frenchyisback said:

 

 

Thank you Bernie for voting to give Gun Manufacturer immunity from prosecution

A true progressive hero

Honey.  If Bernie was your only problem, then gun reform would have passed the senate 99-1.  

[katara]

American Tingz

[Bosque]

I'm sure the pro-life party that is exceedingly concerned with the well-being of children will do something about this

 

[thetea]

and yet people insist that guns are not the issue. the U.S is the only first world countries with issues like this regularly happening