Children in the United States are more likely to die at the hands of a gun than in a car crash, from a drug overdose or cancer. That's just one of the troubling statistics in a new Centers for Disease Control study--- that found firearms killed a record number of children in 2021.
Children in the United States are more likely to die at the hands of a gun than in a car crash, from a drug overdose or cancer.
A local mother who knows the grief of losing a child all too well, is calling for more to be done. From 2018 to 2021, there was a reported 42% increase in the rate of children killed by guns.Whether the shooting is intentional or accidental -- no community is immune. Jacksonville police say just last week, a 9-year-old accidentally shot and killed a 6-year-old.
According to the CDC, there’s no sign of this gun violence trend slowing. News4JAX spoke with Haraka Carswell. Her foundation is a support group for local mothers who lost their children to gunfire . The CDC study reveals that the 4,752 young lives were lost in 2021, surpassing the record total seen during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a statistic that Carswell says indicates that American’s gun violence epidemic is getting worse.
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