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Firearms are the leading cause of death among children. A 2023 study in the journal Pediatrics found that gun-related injuries are the leading cause of death for young people in the U.S., with ...
Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26]
Grossman further argues that violence in television, movies and video games contributes to real-life violence by a similar process of training and desensitization. In On Combat (Grossman's sequel to On Killing, based on ten years of additional research and interviews), he addresses the psychology and physiology of human aggression.
Gun-related deaths among children in the U.S. reached a distressing peak in 2021, claiming 4,752 young lives and surpassing the record total seen during the first year of the pandemic, a new ...
Boys are also more likely to die from gun violence than girls: The analysis found that boys made up 83% of gun deaths in children and teens in 2021, while girls accounted for 17% of those deaths.
The impact of seeing intimate partner violence could be more serious for younger children. Younger children are completely dependent on their caregivers than older children not only for physical care but also emotional care. This is needed for them to develop normal neurological, psychological, and social development.
A city prosecutor who handled shooting investigations once told me that the surgeons were able to piece people back together after the most horrific acts of violence. People went into the hospital damaged beyond belief and came walking out. That stuck with me. I wondered what surgeons know about gun violence that the rest of us don’t.
Gun violence in the U.S. is nothing new, but things are getting worse. A new analysis found guns are the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. since 2017, surpassing car crash deaths ...