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Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions

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Jan 27, 2026
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is gun violence the leading cause of death in children in the USA

— multiple recent, peer-reviewed and public-health sources show that firearm-related injuries have become the leading cause of death for children and adolescents (roughly ages 1–19), overtaking beginn...

Dec 8, 2025

more kids are killed in urban violence while going to school or walking to the playground than black people are killed by police

Available data show substantial numbers of children and juveniles harmed both by police shootings and by broader urban/gun violence, but the sources provided do not directly compare “kids killed while...