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Children and unintentional firearm death
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Hemenway D
; Solnick SJ
Inj Epidemiol
2015[]; 2
(1
): 26
PMID26478854
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BACKGROUND: Children in the United States are at far greater risk of
unintentional gun death than children in other developed countries. 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. No study has used a national data system to investigate the
circumstances of fatal child gun accidents. METHODS: We use data from the
National Violent Death Reporting System for 16 states from 2005 to 2012. 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. RESULTS: We estimate that there were 110 unintentional firearm deaths
to children 0-14 annually in the U.S. during this 8 year time period, 80 % higher
than reported by the Vital Statistics. The victims were predominantly male
(81 %). Approximately two thirds of the shootings were other-inflicted, and in
97 % of those cases the shooter was a male. The typical shooter in
other-inflicted shootings is a brother or friend. Indeed, children aged 11-14 are
often shot in the home of friends. The large majority of children are shot by
other children or by themselves. It is rare for a child accidentally to be shot
by or accidentally to shoot an adult who is not a family member. CONCLUSIONS: 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.
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