From the BBC website: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61192975
'Guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020, new research shows.
'Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020.
'While suicides contributed to the toll, the data shows that homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths.
'More than 390 million guns are owned by US civilians.'
An accompanying video states '4.6 million children in USA live in homes with unsecured guns. Three in four of them know where the gun is.'
What about other countries? I found a CNN news report from 2016 'US leads the world in child gun deaths' which stated: 'Globally, the United States led the world in the rate of firearm deaths in youth among countries with available data in 2016. The rate in the US was 36.5 times higher than in a dozen comparable high-income countries around the world; the rate of firearm deaths was five times as high compared with a sampling of low- to middle -ncome countries.' https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/20/health/child-gun-deaths-rising/index....
Neil Pakenham-Walsh, Global Coordinator HIFA, www.hifa.org neil@hifa.org
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