Guns have overtaken car crashes as the leading cause of death among young Americans.
Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.
- the rise in gun-related deaths among Americans between the ages of one and 19 was part of an overall 33.4% increase in firearm homicides nationwide.Over the same time period, the rate of firearm suicides in the US rose by 1.1%. The rate of gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents rose among both men and women and across ethnic demographics between 2019 and 2020, with the largest increase among black Americans.
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