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Firearms are now the leading cause of death in children and teens in the U.S.

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Children are particularly impacted by the deadly intersection of domestic violence and gun violence. For children under 13, gun homicides most frequently occur in the home and are often connected to domestic or family violence.

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-- Everytown for Gun Safety (@everytown.bsky.social) Jun 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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... A new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics found that over 7,000 more children died from firearm-related injuries in the years following a 2010 Supreme Court decision that gave states greater power to set their own gun laws. Most of those deaths occurred in states that opted to make it easier to purchase and carry firearms.

The study, led by Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency medicine doctor with Mass General Brigham, found a sharp increase in gun-related deaths among children and teens ages 0 to 17 beginning in 2011, following the 2010 McDonald v. Chicago decision, which ruled that the Second Amendment's right to bear arms was applicable to all states and municipalities and ultimately overturned municipal handgun bans like the one previously enforced in Chicago.

Over the 12-year post-decision period, researchers estimate more than 6,000 excess deaths occurred in states with the most permissive gun laws. Another 1,400 excess deaths occurred in states that made their laws more permissive but were not in the most extreme group. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-11 09:07 PM | Reply

fwiw ...

2022 overall gun death rates (per 100,000 population) and counts
en.wikipedia.org

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Location Death rates Deaths
Mississippi 29.6 848
Louisiana 28.2 1,266
New Mexico 27.3 571
Alabama 25.5 1,278
Missouri 24.2 1,489
Montana 23.9 274
Alaska 22.4 164
Arkansas 21.9 666
District Of Columbia 21.4 154
South Carolina 20.8 1,105
Tennessee 20.5 1,480
Wyoming 20.4 124
Arizona 20.1 1,535
Oklahoma 19.8 797
Georgia 19.7 2,163
Nevada 18.9 618
Kentucky 18.8 840
Indiana 17.4 1,211
Colorado 17.1 1,036
Idaho 17 338
Kansas 16.8 492
North Carolina 16.8 1,831
North Dakota 16.4 125
West Virginia 16.2 311
South Dakota 15.7 141

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#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-11 09:24 PM | Reply

Thanks to Senator 'Moscow Mitch' McConnell (R-KY), the GOP, Dotard Trumpf, and the NRA, every eleven minutes an assailant kills someone with an easily accessible firearm in America. The US will soon reach 50,000 KIA per annum under the Trumpf junta; the US is right now averaging 47,000 gun deaths per year, like a warzone. Total US military deaths in Korea (1950-53): 36,574. studyfinds.org

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-06-11 09:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The GOP is Death Cult, plain and simple.

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-11 10:15 PM | Reply

Over the 12-year post-decision period, researchers estimate more than 6,000 excess deaths occurred in states with the most permissive gun laws.

Take a bow, MAGAt filth.

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-12 03:14 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Well no one could have foreseen this happening./snark

So long as it is your children dying the GOP won't dare upset the cash cow NRA.

Steve Scalise was shot and managed to listen to his wallet over common sense.

There is no low that is too low for the GOP.

Children bled out in terror for over an hour in Uvalde because police were afraid of the weapon the shooter had.

If you are not enraged by that one fact...a 10 year old begged for her life on the phone as her classmates were killed and are not motivated to make ANY CHANGE AT ALL then you are a monster and a ghoul.

"As law enforcement officers hung back outside Khloie Torres' fourth-grade classroom in Uvalde, Texas, she begged for help in a series of 911 calls, whispering into the phone that there were "a lot" of bodies and telling the operator: "Please, I don't want to die. My teacher is dead. Oh, my God."

At one point, the dispatcher asks Khloie if there are many people in the room with the 10-year-old, who ultimately survived.

"No, it's just me and a couple of friends. A lot of people are," she says, pausing briefly, "gone.""

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-12 09:45 AM | Reply

Yeah... small price for feeling safe.

Stop whining already

#7 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-12 01:19 PM | Reply

I'll wager that the political class in each of the states listed here blather on about the 'sanctity of life' in their objections to abortion, while going mute about the slaughter of children at the hands of shooters. These pols should be asked to open their Bibles to this, which may be our president's favorite passage (he has so many):

"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.
-Matthew 7: 3-5

#8 | Posted by catdog at 2025-06-12 01:23 PM | Reply

Well, looks like it's time to ban some more books and drag queen story hours.

#9 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-06-12 02:54 PM | Reply

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