Dramatic increase in shooting deaths among children and youth in the United States

The results of a recently published analysis show that the rate of deaths caused by the use of weapons among children and youth in the United States has increased and reached 87 percent from 2011 to 2021. The results of the analysis conducted in the journal Pediatrics state that, 2,590 children and youth those under the age of 18 died in 2021 due to the injuries they sustained; the number of which in 2011 was 1,311. Toni Gross, Director of the Emergency Services Unit at the New Orleans Children's Hospital, has explained that at least one child is brought to the hospital after being injured by a gunshot. And Nick Suplina, the high-level deputy for legal and political affairs of the Everytown Institute for Gun Safety, has said that more than four million and five hundred thousand children live in unsafe homes in the United States; where at least each house has one number of weapons. Nick Suplina has added that, almost half of the suicide cases among children and young people aged 10 to 17 years involve the use of weapons.

New York Post