VS’is a chilling figure that could well provoke the revolt of opponents of the bearing of arms in the United States. As reported in an article in the New England Journal Medicine relayed by the BBC, firearms have become the leading cause of death of children and adolescents in the country, ahead of car accidents. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is based on the year 2020, more than 4,300 young Americans have died from weapons-related injuries or fatal blows. to fire against 3,900 deaths in road accidents. An increase of almost 30% (29.5%) compared to the previous year and which is twice as high as that of the population as a whole.
According to health experts, reported by the BBC, this statistic once again demonstrates that gun violence has increased significantly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. As proof, car accidents have always come first in the ranking of causes of death of children for 21 years. The gap has narrowed a lot since 2016, however, the CDC says. In total, incidents involving firearms caused the deaths of more than 45,000 people in the United States in 2020, 13% more than the previous year.
Nearly 400 million guns belong to American civilians
“We continue to fail to protect our young people from a preventable cause of death,” the scientists lambasted in an open letter published in the New England Journal Medicine. “The reasons for the increase are unclear. It cannot be assumed that firearm-related mortality will later return to pre-pandemic levels,” they also add. The BBC points out that more than 390 million weapons belong to American civilians.
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