How easy access to guns at home contributes to America’s youth suicide problem

Matthew Miller and Deborah Azrael — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 18:00:35 +0000

School shootings in the U.S. are national tragedies, and the toll they take in lives cut short and traumatized distinguishes the U.S. from other high-income countries. But there is another way that guns are killing American children, and in far greater numbers: suicide. Between 2011 and 2020, the most recent decade for which data is available, 14,763 children ages 5-17 […]

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