More than 15% of childhood deaths in America are due to guns, study says

Wednesday, December 19, 2018 - 19:40 in Health & Medicine

In 2016, 3,143 children and adolescents died of a gunshot wound in the United States, a new tally of childhood deaths finds. These children accounted for 15.4% of all those Americans between 1 and 19 who died in 2016, and a quarter of all those killed by injury rather than disease. As they inch...

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