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.
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.
These people try, try, try, and simply won’t admit that it’s the culture, stupids!
Aroura has a super abundance of the culture that leads to juvenile death by shooting.
Coming from the Center for DemocRAT Control, I call BULLSHIT on this article...err....propaganda piece.
BS
Total Bull Shit.
Just like CV-19 deaths.
if there was a gun in the vicinity, then it would be gun death. If there was a picture of a gun somewhere nearby then it was a gun death.
Bullshit
Any particular color of those teens stand out?
Exactly so. All of which is conveniently left out of this so-called "report".
All these POC piling themselves up like cordwood -- so let's blame whitey.
This is just more BS from the CDC handwringing hangers on. The ones who don’t have the infectious disease expertise (which, oddly, the CDC doesn’t use anyway when politics are involved) to make it in their twisted hierarchy.
So. They create reports about wife-beating (spousal abuse) is a disease - hell, wife-beater T-shirts are a disease.
GUNS! [ooga booga] are a disease, and now instead of Covid, teen deaths are predominantly caused by guns.
CDC is nestled in the midst of Druid Hills just outside of Decatur, GA.....a stone’s throw from pukingly leftist Emory University. An entire environ of rabid leftists securely entrenched in the [former] prestige of what is the CDC. They suck our (OUR) country’s life’s blood with their political dogma and it has to stop. If I had my way, all those ‘scientists’ would be cleaning out the poop from the Yerkes Primate Center (if that still exists.) Stinking leftists.
[BTW, I graduated from Druid Hills High School in 1968. I know all about those leftists]
Just reas about the drug Dad getting shot at with his 7-mo old in the car.
He was grazed, child ws killed.
MANY, MANY young people dying fentanyl is being hidden in many drugs the kids think are safe a minuscule amount of fentanyl can kill you!! Fentanyl is being hidden in many pharmaceuticals students are using to stay awake for study purposes or when partying the pills look exactly the same as the real thing but they are deadly ALL coming over our southern border!!
Not COVID...?
Else why were we injecting toddlers with an experimental elixir?
How to lie with statistics.
When they include adults to jack the numbers, they are just flat our lying.
I guess the CDC solved the fentanyl problem.
And Covid deaths.
The CDC is a woke political operation, anything it does that would be considered traditional public health is accidental or vestigial.
The stats themselves are probably true but highly misleading.
Strip out crime related gang violence and you get a new and much much lower number.
In 1983, the average starting salary for graduates of the University of Virginia school of Communication was something like $85,000. Now take out Ralph Sampson and his Houston Rocket's contract and run the numbers again...
accidents or swimming pools not guns.
It wasn’t COVID. The kids are virtually immune. It was the CDC’s forced isolation.
FU, CDC.
True dat.
Americans 18 & 19 can legally vote. They are no longer kiddies.
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