June 2025 – 6192: the number of young people shot in the USA in 2023. The Trace reports:-
“6,192 – The number of children and teenagers shot in 2023
“Firearms surpassed motor vehicle crashes to become the leading cause of death among children and teenagers for the first time in 2020. Since the pandemic, most of these deaths have been homicides. This is in contrast to the U.S. population at large, for which suicide is the main driver of firearm death. Of the 6,192 children and teenagers under 18 who were shot in 2023, more than 1,600 died. [Gun Violence Archive]”
There have been at least 4 children hurt or killed in gun accidents in their family homes in the last days of May 2025. One was fatal. All of these were wholly avoidable.
As any member of the gun-owning ‘well-regulated militia’ is supposed to know, to prevent accidents all guns in a home should be unloaded, in a safe, and that guns and ammo must be stored separately.
Brigham City, Utah, police said:
“If you don’t have a safe then you can get what’s called a trigger lock that you put a lock on the trigger of the gun… You can buy those when you buy the gun, they are cheap. Or most police departments, you can go to the police department and get those trigger locks. We give them away for free.”
Police would like gun owners to discuss how dangerous guns are with their children, and to tell children to tell an adult immediately if they find a gun.
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Some American gun owners are still not getting the message that guns and children do not mix. In the last week, at least four children were injured, one fatally, by finding loaded guns – guns which legally should never have been left lying around where children were able to get them. In 2023, 6,193 children were in shooting incidents; many found loaded guns and suffered the consequences. Every time, the parent/carer thinks it can’t happen to them.
If you keep a gun around children, make sure it is stored safely, unloaded, somewhere they cannot access it.
Police would like gun owners to discuss how dangerous guns are with their children, and to tell children to tell an adult immediately if they find a gun.
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