![]() It has been shown that many unintended shootings of children in the U.S. This ratio is most likely an underestimate since the US data it relies upon come from death certificates. Our study highlights the fact that unintentional firearm death to children is a problem of children shooting children and thus the importance of keeping guns away from children, their siblings, and their friends.Ĭhildren ages 0–14 in the United States have far higher rates of unintentional firearm death than children in other developed countries-on the order of 10 times higher (Richardson and Hemenway 2011). It is rare for a child accidentally to be shot by or accidentally to shoot an adult who is not a family member. The large majority of children are shot by other children or by themselves. Indeed, children aged 11–14 are often shot in the home of friends. The typical shooter in other-inflicted shootings is a brother or friend. Approximately two thirds of the shootings were other-inflicted, and in 97 % of those cases the shooter was a male. The victims were predominantly male (81 %). during this 8 year time period, 80 % higher than reported by the Vital Statistics. We estimate that there were 110 unintentional firearm deaths to children 0–14 annually in the U.S. We examine the cases of unintentional gun death involving children in five age groups, 0–1, 2–4, 5–10, 11–12, and 13–14, where the child was either the victim or shooter. We use data from the National Violent Death Reporting System for 16 states from 2005 to 2012. No study has used a national data system to investigate the circumstances of fatal child gun accidents. The relative figures may even be worse since the estimates for US child unintentional gun deaths are derived from the Vital Statistics which have been shown to be underestimates. Children in the United States are at far greater risk of unintentional gun death than children in other developed countries. ![]()
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