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.
Road apples.
Kids drown in pools many times more than killed with any type of firearm.
Not even close.
5.56mm
What this means is the the numbers jumped from 5 to 7, and from 2 to 3 in
the localities mentioned.
This is sensationalist nonsense.
If the numbers drop back to 5 and 2, does anyone here think we’ll hear
about it?
This study included adults who could lawfully buy and own firearms a well as kids who committed suicide with a firearm during the coronapanic lockdown.
The actual study (as to the excerpt posted in the OP) also crows about gun deaths exceeding the number killed in traffic accidents. All the while carefully omitting this was during peak coronapanic, when people nation-wide were driving far less than usual. And coronapanic reduced traffic deaths and increased deaths from suicide.
Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
I’d like to know how they define “firearm-related”...
Per an appendix, they include suicides...
This is a lie.
This is the truth:
“Homicide is the leading cause of death for non-Hispanic black male teenagers. For all other groups, accident is the leading cause.”
A witch doctor has more credibility.
Major BS!
Bullfauci. Complete and utter bullfauci.
This is where they still call 25 year olds “children”.
Is it higher than abortion?
I understated it then. Child gun violence is highly location dependent in areas with gun free zones.
The CDC affirmative action hiring program has come to fruition. The CDC cannot handle science and the investigation of infectious diseases so the current employees have to make it up as they go along to justify their salaries.
I do not believe this is the truth.
An outright lie brought to you by the corrupt quacks at the CDC.
Finally. Someone actually read what I said.
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