Adolescents & Firearms: America’s Most Inflated Crisis

[Talyn]

This article originally appeared in ammo.com and is re-published here with permission.

This is an important topic where terminology matters, as “adolescents” isn’t synonymous with children or teenagers. And the meme, “guns are the leading cause of death for children”, is popular but wrong as we detail below.

Report Highlights:

• According to the most recent available data, there were 10,048 injury-related deaths (individuals between the ages <1-17). 2,590 of those deaths involved firearms.
• 62% of child injury-related deaths included mechanisms other than firearms.
• Firearms accounted for less than 25% of all injury-related juvenile deaths.
• 1,590 adolescents nationwide committed suicide. Of those, 790 suicides involved firearms.
• There were 2,220 homicides among the <1-17 age group. Firearms were suspected in 1,503 of those homicides.
• There were 161 more adolescent homicides (all methods) compared to the previous year.
• There were 93 school shootings. Of those, 7 adolescents were killed inside the school during school hours.

Adolescents & Firearms: America’s Most Inflated Crisis • The Havok Journal

by Cassandra McBride This article originally appeared in ammo.com and is re-published here with permission. This is an important topic where terminology The solution to adolescent injury-related deaths isn’t simple. It isn’t removing one tool to save a handful of lives. It’s a multi-faceted...

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Firearm-Related Homicides & Adolescents​

• 17-year-olds account for the majority of all adolescent homicides with 541 total in 2021 and 514 were firearm-related.
• 16-year-olds account for the second-highest amount of homicides in 2021. There were 358 firearm-related homicides of 382 total.
• 551 of 2,220 homicides were non-firearm-related deaths in 2021.
• There were 2,220 adolescent homicides in 2021:
• 1,001 Black American juveniles and 380 White American juveniles were murdered with a firearm.
• 60% of all adolescent firearm-related homicides were black youth and 23% of all firearm-related youth homicides were white.
• 930 individuals under the age of 18 were arrested for homicide in 2020 – 58% of all juveniles arrested for homicide in 2020 were black and 40% were white.

Firearm-Related Suicides & Adolescents​

• Adolescent suicide deaths also increased by 62% in a ten-year period from 2010-2020.
• In 2021, 733 children died of suffocation-related suicides. 795 children died of firearm-related suicides. A total of 1,590 children (ages <1-17) committed suicide.
• Children between the ages 10-14 were more likely to die from suffocation-related suicide (53.7%) than firearms (38.6%).
• In 2020, 1,516 children committed suicide with 687 firearm-related deaths.
• 2018 saw a higher number of adolescent suicides with 1,680 total, but only 696 firearm-related.

 

[TEXASforLIFE]

The term injury and death shouldn't be used together either. Were they injured or did they die. Another fine line of term use! Was it instantaneous or was the person lying there with heart beating until death?

With the anti2a agendas they group it all together just to make it worse! Next, I'll group voting habits/tendencies to remove or limit what they should be able to do! See how they like that!

 

[XD94045]

Thanks for posting. People Magazine published this piece to rile the masses…

After Losing Sons to Suicide, Two Moms are Fighting for Gun Safety (Exclusive) — People

The nightmare that has consumed Emily Hackett-Fiske’s life started with a phone call. She and her husband, Jason, a police officer, were spending time in New Hampshire, two and a half hours from their home in Williston, Vt., when her cell phone rang late one afternoon in September 2020. A...

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[Lexie__M]

Now everyone has a script to applenews