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Posted on 04/29/2022 10:40:54 AM PDT by real saxophonist
Guns the leading cause of death for children, teens by: Joshua Short
Posted: Apr 28, 2022
DENVER (KDVR) — New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals an alarming trend: Guns are now the leading cause of death facing children and teens.
That new report comes as many observe Youth Violence Prevention Week this week. The Problem Solvers dug into these numbers and found it’s a trend also impacting local communities.
Some experts say some people will read or even hear this headline and automatically assume this is an issue on guns or gun laws. But they say there’s more to it.
“The really important picture that these data paint is a cry for help,” said Kim Gorgens, Ph.D., professor of forensic psychology at the University of Denver.
From 2019 to 2020, firearm-related deaths went up 29.5% in people ages 1-19.
These are chilling stats and — even more — these are preventable deaths.
“It paints a really emergent picture of a need and unmet need for treatment and mental health in teenagers,” Gorgens said. “It also painted a really emergent need on community policing and better control and harm reduction models for substance use.”
It’s a trend touching communities around the nation, including right here at home.
Over the last month, FOX31 has covered several crime scenes around the metro area, where victims who died by gunfire ranged from 3-17 years old.
Gorgens said this data isn’t just a hiccup. She said this is a public health crisis, and these deaths usually impact families who don’t have public health access.
“Those are data that reflect changes in public health trends over time. So really importantly, this is a wake-up call to all of us, she said. “Teenagers could not make it clearer for us, the adults on the other side of this research and on the other end of these media outlets, that they’re suffering, that they need help. And to the degree that we ignore that, and we turn a blind eye to it, we’ve essentially signed a death warrant.”
In the CDC study, these types of deaths include suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined.
So far this year in Aurora, three people younger than 19 have been shot and killed. In Denver, seven people younger than 19 have been shot and killed.
“Teens/kids”-—18-24 year old men that committed suicide during the freaking lockdowns and Covid BS!!! They’re using more propaganda and most of them killed shot themselves because of leftist policies——period!
Yep. Every one of the little SOBs who are justifiably shot by a cop or an intended victim, or by a fellow gangbanger peer, is listed as a “child victim of gun violence”.
It is BS political advocacy pseudo-science.
“In the CDC study, these types of deaths include suicide, homicide, unintentional and undetermined...”
bull fracking shite
This fraud will be pushed by Fauci and his fellow fascists. They will never relinquish control.
If true, it is a location dependant statistic.
Yes it is straight up BS-—Because these are suicides committed by teens via shooting themselves-—then they state it was a “gun death”. BTW, it’s way up because of the leftist lockdown covid BS policies and all of the “choose your gender” bs where suicide rates are close to 50%!!!
Half truths ARE lies!
A little outside the CDC’s purview. I guess they ended all diseases?
Yes but they’re using “shooting themselves” (suicides) as firearm “homicides”. It’s a complete lie....
Aye, there’s the rub.
If you removed 17-19 year old children from this list, the leading cause of death might be suicide.
All the more reason to keep Children and "Teens" out of Blue Democrat Cesspool Cities and separated.
Most are gang shootings in Chicago and other democrat utopias.
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Abortion and human trafficking are the leading cause of deaths of children.
Denver TV is part of the ministry of truth.
The leading cause of death RIGHT NOW ages 13-45 in this country is fentanyl this article is a HUGE LIE!!!
Yah, no kidding. Notice how they group suicides with homicides? What you will find if you break out numbers is that there are a heckuva lot of suicides. Tragic, obviously, but deliberately misleading.
Number One thing killing our children is legalized abortion.
Control for race and urbanicity and their claim vanishes. Also if she is broken into categories. It wouldn’t surprise me if guns were mist responsible for deaths among urban black kids of ages 15 to 19.
My daughter met a gal that is a recovering drug addict. The gal said she has lost 11 friends due to drugs in the last two years - probably because of fentanyl.
Less than 93 people a day- There are 30,000 gun related deaths per year by firearms, and this number is not disputed.
0.000000925% of the population dies from gun related actions each year. Statistically speaking, this is insignificant!
What is never told, however, is a breakdown of those 30,000 deaths, to put them in perspective as compared to other causes of death:
• 65% of those deaths are by suicide which would never be prevented by gun laws
• 15% are by law enforcement in the line of duty and justified
• 17% are through criminal activity, gang and drug related or mentally ill persons – gun violence
• 3% are accidental discharge deaths
So technically, "gun violence" is not 30,000 annually, but drops to 5,100. Still too many? Well, first, how are those deaths spanned across the nation?
480 homicides (9.4%) were in Chicago
344 homicides (6.7%) were in Baltimore
333 homicides (6.5%) were in Detroit
119 homicides (2.3%) were in Washington D.C. (a 54% increase over prior years)
So basically, 25% of all gun crime happens in just 4 cities. All 4 of those cities have strict gun laws, so it is not the lack of law that is the root cause.
This basically leaves 3,825 for the entire rest of the nation, or about 75 deaths per state. That is an average because some States have much higher rates than others. For example, California had 1,169 and Alabama had 1.
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