The New York Times (10/5, Rabin) reports, “The rate of firearm fatalities among children under 18 increased by 87 percent from 2011 through 2021 in the” US, while “the death rate attributable to car accidents fell by almost half, leaving firearm injuries the top cause of accidental death in children,” according to findingsreleased Oct. 5 in a research brief in the journal Pediatrics. The study revealed that “some 2,590 children and teenagers under the age of 18 died of firearm injuries in 2021, up from 1,311 in 2011.”
ABC News (10/5, Martin, Huang) reports, “Researchers looked at data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s injury reporting system,” then “analyzed injuries leading to death from 2011-2021 and nonfatal injuries from 2011-2020.” Overall, the study team “found that fatal injury rates increased from about 14 deaths per 100,000 children in 2011 to over 17 deaths per 100,000 children in 2021,” with “firearm injuries” making “up the biggest portion of those fatal injuries.” HealthDay (10/5, Gotkine) also covers the study.
Related Links:
— “Gun Deaths Rising Sharply Among Children, Study Finds,”Roni Rabin, The New York Times, October 5, 2023