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Gun deaths among U.S. children and teens rose 50% in two years
Pew Research ^ | 04 06 2023 | John Gramlich

Posted on 04/16/2023 7:47:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

The number of children and teens killed by gunfire in the United States increased 50% between 2019 and 2021, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the latest annual mortality statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, there were 1,732 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18. By 2021, that figure had increased to 2,590.

The gun death rate among children and teens – a measure that adjusts for changes in the nation’s population – rose from 2.4 fatalities per 100,000 minor residents in 2019 to 3.5 per 100,000 two years later, a 46% increase.

Both the number and rate of children and teens killed by gunfire in 2021 were higher than at any point since at least 1999, the earliest year for which information about those younger than 18 is available in the CDC’s mortality database.

The rise in gun deaths among children and teens is part of a broader recent increase in firearm deaths among Americans overall. In 2021, there were 48,830 gun deaths among Americans of all ages – by far the highest yearly total on record and up 23% from the 39,707 recorded in 2019, before the pandemic.

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Look at the administration with the sharpest rise:








1 posted on 04/16/2023 7:47:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Okay but that’s not a gun problem, that’s a cultural problem and most of us know who is responsible for that.


2 posted on 04/16/2023 7:49:09 PM PDT by Boomer (The biden regime / identity politics is a clear and present threat to this constitutional republic.)
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To: yesthatjallen

All men should be castrated, because rape.
Pencils write the bad poetry too.


3 posted on 04/16/2023 7:49:21 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Children...that can be an 18 year old gang banger


4 posted on 04/16/2023 7:50:11 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they wacnto diese for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: yesthatjallen

Reaping the rewards of the communist goals to break down America.


5 posted on 04/16/2023 7:50:15 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: yesthatjallen

I believe John Lott wrote an article showing that the research for this study was faulty. I recall seeing it early today but cannot remember where I found the link.


6 posted on 04/16/2023 7:50:24 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: yesthatjallen

“teens”


7 posted on 04/16/2023 7:53:05 PM PDT by Parley Baer (WI)
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To: 2banana

You are absolutely correct. I’m sure if you breakdown the stats you’ll find the vast majority of these “children” are big city gang bangers killing each with a healthy dose of innocent kids caught in the crossfire.


8 posted on 04/16/2023 7:54:45 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: yesthatjallen

The Pew Research Center...releasing a study on gun deaths...

Anyway, I blame the increase on the Biden administration. He gets elected and there’s blood in the streets.


9 posted on 04/16/2023 7:54:54 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: yesthatjallen

Pew pew pew


10 posted on 04/16/2023 7:55:28 PM PDT by LiberalismDestroys
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To: yesthatjallen

12-18 yr old needs to be totally divorced from <12.

Plus breakout by “Race”.

Then we can talk.

Pew stinks, by definition.


11 posted on 04/16/2023 7:55:57 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: bicyclerepair

And cars kill 50,000 a year. Outlaw cars.


12 posted on 04/16/2023 7:56:41 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Parley Baer

Back out the “teenage” gangbangers’ deaths and the problem goes away.


13 posted on 04/16/2023 7:56:46 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: yesthatjallen

Don’t put any faith in polls anymore.


14 posted on 04/16/2023 7:58:19 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Over 2/3 of large city gang members are under 18. Those are also the ones most likely to be violent because they’re young and trying to prove themselves to the gang leaders. Those are the “children” these slanted articles portray as gun victims.

https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh176/files/pubs/96natyouthgangsrvy/surv_6a.html


15 posted on 04/16/2023 8:00:58 PM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: yesthatjallen

Lots of black children live in democrat hellhole cities... that’s why their murder rates is so high.

Guns don’t kill on their own... there’s a thug/goon pulling the trigger...


16 posted on 04/16/2023 8:02:03 PM PDT by GOPJ (It's NOT 'gender affirming care' - it's SEXUAL MUTILATION OF A YOUNG PERSON. Don't use their words.)
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To: yesthatjallen

We are talking black teenagers here. Children and other ethnic groups are extremely rarely killed by guns.


17 posted on 04/16/2023 8:03:31 PM PDT by poinq
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To: bicyclerepair

And spoons make people fat.

Next these pinheads will try to correlate gun sales to deaths by firearms. “See, all those gun sales are causing gun deaths”.

More crap from the govt. mouthpieces.


18 posted on 04/16/2023 8:05:25 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: 2banana

Anymore, these “children “ are 14 year old gang bangers doing the gun thefts and shootings on order of older thugs


19 posted on 04/16/2023 8:06:24 PM PDT by digger48
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To: 2banana

Considering Obamacare redefined “child” to be 26 I am dubious of these statistics.

However the problem race has been very busy shooting themselves.


20 posted on 04/16/2023 8:11:13 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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