Fact check: Among children, firearms were the leading cause of death in 2020

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Fact check: Sen. Schumer says the leading cause of death among children is a firearm. Is this true?

. He called on his colleagues to tighten the nation’s gun laws.

Schumer is correct, depending on you define children, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and analyses from researchers at three academic centers. among children ages one through 18 involved a firearm. There were 3,219 such deaths in 2020, followed by motor vehicle traffic deaths, of which there were 2,882." researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions analyzed CDC data from 2020 and found that gun violence was the leading cause of death among children, teens, and young adults under age 25.

Researchers at the Rockefeller Institute of Government, Leigh Wedenoja and Jacklyn Schildkraut, used CDC data, and found that if"children" are defined as people 19 and under, as they said the CDC tends to do, then firearm deaths exceed traffic deaths. Their analysis did not take into account infant-specific types of deaths, such as congenital abnormalities or short gestation.

 

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