Guns Now Kill More Children and Young Adults Than Car Crashes

Guns have overtaken motor-vehicle accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the US among people aged one to 24, according to new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data, from 2000 to 2020, shows gun deaths among that age group increased from 7.3 per 100,000 people to 10.28 per 100,000 during the period, while motor-vehicle fatalities dropped from 13.62 to 8.31 per 100,000. Political history and a lack of a federal agency to regulate guns has allowed firearms to become a public health problem, the report warned. “There is robust funding for motor vehicle related research and interventions…we have just begun to see federal funding for firearm research after 25 years of nearly no funding,” the authors said.



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