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On average, over 3,000 U.S. children and adolescents die each year from a firearm injury. Approximately nine children and adolescents ages 0 to 19 die by firearm injury each day in the United States, with about five of those deaths being homicide-related and three being suicide-related.
In the Children’s Safety Network and Children’s Safety Now Alliance's new infographic series, learn more about firearm death rates by sex and race/ethnicity, as well as how families, clinicians and schools/communities can work to prevent these deaths.
- Firearm Safety: Preventing Death by Homicide - Nov 2021
- Firearm Safety: Preventing Death by Suicide - Nov 2021