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.
When you add teen gang-bangers into the definition of “children” I’m sure it increases the death rate due to guns.
Democrats lie on this issue because they are the party of criminals, thugs and sexual weirdos.
So democrats and their butt boys in the press say it was the ‘gun’.. but not the two bit thug who was let out of jail before his victim got out of the hospital. The two bit thug that went on to kill another child...
Or that guns kill children in fatherless homes ... suicide being a factor...
Drug abuse is a CHOICE. So drug deaths are suicides.
Bald face lies constantly about everything and people believe it all like they are some kind if god. That’s problem they have no God!! They are EVIL
Oh, wait. They put them out. Never mind.
And how many of those were murdered because of gang violence.
Teens = gangbangers.
The letter never said "guns" were the cause of death. It talked about "firearm related injuries".
It is misinformation.
I’m sure one color does, and just a wild guess it isn’t white.
Calling 19 year olds children. Who believes these jackwipes lies anymore?
So much wrong here. KDVR sucks.
Yeah, but they have the cutest weather chicks.
Of course it is.
I do not either.
well, still...
8~)
“These are chilling stats and — even more — these are preventable deaths.”
You know what WOULD prevent a lot of deaths in children and teens? A FATHER in the home. If Socialist Democrats hadn’t done all they could to DESTROY the nuclear/traditional family (one MAN, one WOMAN, Married, THEN add kids) single females with children wouldn’t be living in hopeless, VIOLENT, poverty-stricken Leftist WASTELANDS, clinging to Mother Government for their sad and sorry lives.
Boys wouldn’t be raised on the streets where the only ‘male influence’ are criminals and lowlifes. Throw in ‘Mama’s New Boyfriend’ and you’ve got the perfect storm for more death and violence in their lives.
But, we can’t HAVE a god-fearing, moral electorate where people are FREE and PROSPEROUS and Mother Government isn’t needed.
As always, thank a Socialist Democrat for everything wrong with this world.
*SPIT*
What percentage are gang-bangers in the 16 to 19 year old age range?
That might be an interesting stat.
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