Guns kill more teens and kids in America than drugs or cancer, report finds

[AndyS]

Firearm-related injuries claimed 4,300 young people’s lives in 2020
Guns now kill more children and teenagers in the United States than car accidents, drug overdoses or cancer, according to new research.

The stunning finding came after researchers analysed decades worth of mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says the The New England Journal of Medicine.

The study found that gun-related injuries in 2020 claimed 4,300 young people’s lives, which was a jarring 29 per cent jump from the year before - and more than twice as high as the relative increase when compared to the US general population.

They stated that firearm related deaths rising while motor vehicle crash deaths lowered, demonstrates how creating policies for injury prevention can reduce injuries and deaths — and, on the flipside, how a public health problem can be exacerbated in the absence of such attention.

Vehicles keep getting safer and guns keep getting more lethal. It doesn't have to be this way.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Yet

Republicans say More Guns = Freedumb!

One of the candidates for Portman’s seat here in ohio wants to abolish the ATF and abolish all red flag laws.

Because mentally ill people and abusive spouses deserve to have themselves as many guns as they want.

“Man kills wife and children then turns gun on himself”. … how many times have we read this headline in the past years?

[krispos42]

2. I presume you mean "murdered with firearms".

Kind of changes the story when you stop using the passive tense.

[AndyS]

4. No, it doesn't. nt

[krispos42]

6. Sure, Jan

:eyeroll:

[pwb]

3. It is the puke substitute for endless war.

Gun deaths are well above Vietnam casualties in a year?

[MagickMuffin]

5. Calling Nancy Reagan time to revive her campaign slogan: Just Say NO

To GUNS

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

Won't anyone think of the children.

Apparently the children don't matter unless they can be used as props for their agendas.


Thx for the OP!

[Tickle]

7. and Fentanyl is the number

one killer of all

[maxsolomon]

8. A nation's priorities made concrete.

Negligence, suicides, homicides. And these are just the deaths, not the total number shot.

The more guns, the more shootings.