Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at 'alarming' rate, study reveals

[AndyS]

A new study by researchers at Boston Children’s hospital found children’s gun-related deaths have surged over the past decade, increasing by 87%.
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In 2021, 2,590 children died due to firearm injuries compared to 1,311 in 2011, according to the study published in the medical journal Pediatrics.
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The study comes as a spate of mass shootings in the US has led to calls, especially among political progressives, for substantial gun control.

The Gun Violence Archive defines a mass shooting as one that wounds or kills at least four victims. The nonpartisan resource has recorded more than 500 mass shootings in the US so far in 2023, a rate of more than one a day.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/05/children-deaths-guns-rising

Children refers to 18 & under.

The gun industry's answer to all this is to export more guns to other countries so the US isn't an outlier.

[D]ata obtained by Reuters for Ontario, Canada's most populous province, shows that when handguns involved in crimes were traced in 2021, they were overwhelmingly - 85% of the time - found to have come from the United States.

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What the fuck is wrong with us?