Guns are the leading cause of death of kids and teens, and state laws matter

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Source: NPR

States with permissive gun laws experienced a rise in pediatric deaths from firearm injuries between 2011 and 2023, whereas states with stricter laws did not. That's according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

"We know that the leading cause of death in children is firearm injuries," says Dr. Maya Haasz, an emergency medicine doctor and researcher at the University of Colorado, who wasn't involved in the new study. In a policy brief from 2021, she and her colleagues found that a child or teen is killed in the U.S. every 2 hours and 48 minutes.

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The study "adds more robust evidence," supporting that states with more lenient gun laws have more pediatric deaths from gunshots, says Dr. Chethan Sathya, a pediatric surgeon and director of the Center for Gun Violence Prevention at Northwell Health in New York. He wasn't involved in the new study.

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"In this study, for every fatality they captured, there are going to be countless more kids in those states that had non-fatal injuries and their lives are going to forever be altered," Sathya says.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/11/nx-s1-5429711/gun-deaths-state-laws-jama-pediatrics

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Important.study - and exactly the sort of study gun manufacturers and advocates don't want done. Expect the Trump regime to do whatever it can to stop or counter such studies.

According to the abstract in JAMA

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2834530

the study was done with an online CDC database.

And we know how the Trump regime likes to disappear data.

[dweller]

1. Just in time for the NC vote

House Judiciary panel approves controversial concealed weapons bill
GOP leadership proposal would make NC the 30th state to approve so-called “constitutional carry,” and 10th to extend coverage to 18-year-olds
The North Carolina House Judiciary 2 Committee voted 6-5 along party lines Tuesday to pass a bill to allow the permitless carry of concealed firearms, one of the most controversial topics of the current legislative session.

Senate Bill 50, “Freedom to Carry NC,” would allow individuals who are U.S. citizens, at least 18 years of age, and not otherwise prohibited by law, to carry concealed weapons without applying for a permit.

https://ncnewsline.com/briefs/constitutional-carry-bill-clears-final-house-committee-heads-to-floor/

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[Archae]

2. Gun control does not work.

Because how would gun control laws be enforced?

I have yet to see an actual workable answer.

[groundloop]

3. So we're supposed to do nothing?

I don't accept that.

[Archae]

4. We need have the existing gun laws enforced better.

Criminals can't have guns.

Guns in homes need to be better stored, so little kids can't get ahold of them.

No machine guns.
(Just saw a kid in a school was busted for bringing a pistol with a high-capacity magazine and the pistol could fire at full auto.)

[maxsolomon]

8. This report supports the opposite conclusion.

Automatic Weapons have been controlled starting in 1934. How are those laws enforced? They appear to be workable.

[3catwoman3]

5. The NRA did not want people like me...

…(pediatric NP) to be able to ask about gun safety in the home when doing well child visits. Fuck them. I not only asked about the families’ own homes, I advised parents to have a conversation with the parents of their kids’ friends about safety in their homes, and said that is a parent was not even willing to discuss it, have those kids come to your house, not vice versa. I told them to preface the conversation with, “Our pediatric office advised me to ask…”. The look of shock on parents’ faces when I suggested that was something to behold, and they would often say, “Oh my gawd, I never thought about that.”

Trigger locks that are linked to fingerprints seem like such a good idea.

These infuriating deaths are totally preventable.

[twodogsbarking]

6. So it's the guns? Gee.

[3catwoman3]

7. IKR? Is rain wet? Is snow cold?

Is the Pope Catholic?

Is TACO Don an asshole?