Firearm Mortality Among US Youth Rose 30% In Past Decade, Analysis Finds

HealthDay (7/26, Mozes) reports an analysis published in the American Journal of Medicine Open “finds that American youth became 30% more likely to die as a result of gun violence over the past decade.” This “jump in risk appears to have been largely driven by big spikes in gun-related suicides, as well as increases in all manner of gun-related deaths among both girls and non-Hispanic white kids, investigators found.” The analysis focused on CDC data “among boys and girls aged 19 and younger” between 2010 to 2019.

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— “Gun Deaths Rose 30% Among U.S. Kids in a Decade “Alan Mozes, HealthDay, July 26, 2022

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