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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5965584" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/03/29/guns-leading-deaths-children-us/[/URL]“The claim that guns were the leading cause of death for U.S. children in 2020 and 2021 is true only if the selected age range is 1-19 years old. This range excludes infants under one year old, who have a unique risk of age-specific causes of death.”<hr />&quot;Researchers have not determined exactly why children&#039;s deaths from gun violence in the U.S. had risen so considerably since 2020, but some emphasized that the increased availability of guns, especially handguns that tend to be used in homicides and suicides, likely played a role.Looking at data from the CDC and the Gun Violence Archive, The New York Times found that, in 2021, Black children represented half of these gun deaths, and two-thirds of all gun-related homicides involving youths. In other words, Black children were overall six times as likely to die from gun violence compared to white children. Children in big cities were three times more likely to die from gun violence compared to children in small towns.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5965584, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/03/29/guns-leading-deaths-children-us/[/URL] “The claim that guns were the leading cause of death for U.S. children in 2020 and 2021 is [B]true only if the selected age range is 1-19 years old.[/B] This range excludes infants under one year old, who have a unique risk of age-specific causes of death.” [HR][/HR] "Researchers have not determined exactly why children's deaths from gun violence in the U.S. had risen so considerably since 2020, but some emphasized that the increased availability of guns, especially handguns that tend to be used in homicides and suicides, likely played a role. Looking at data from the CDC and the Gun Violence Archive, The New York Times found that, in 2021, Black children represented half of these gun deaths, and two-thirds of all gun-related homicides involving youths. In other words, Black children were overall six times as likely to die from gun violence compared to white children. Children in big cities were three times more likely to die from gun violence compared to children in small towns." [/QUOTE]

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