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American Academy of Pediatrics
June, 2017
This study of gun related deaths for children age 1 to 17 between 2002 and 2014 found that there are nearly 1300 such deaths each year. Based on information in existing data sets, the study found:
Read ReportAfrican American children have the highest rates of firearm mortality overall (4.1 per 100 000), and this disparity is largely a function of differences between racial and ethnic groups in firearm homicide. From 2012 to 2014, the annual firearm homicide rate for African American children (3.5 per 100 000) was nearly twice as high as the rate for American Indian children (2.2 per 100 000), 4 times higher than the rate for Hispanic children (0.8 per 100 000), and ∼10 times higher than the rate for white children and Asian American children (each 0.4 per 100 000).