The Hill (8/21, Sforza) reports, “A record number of U.S. children were killed by firearms in 2021,” researchers concluded in findings published online in the journal Pediatrics.
HealthDay (8/21, Mann) reports, “Guns are now the leading cause of death among kids in the United States,” according to the “study that looked at numbers of U.S. children killed by guns from 2018 to 2021,” a time period during which “there was close to a 42% jump in firearm-caused deaths.”
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— “Record number of children killed by firearms in 2021: research,”Lauren Sforza, The Hill, August 21, 2023