California Leads the Nation in Children Killed by Firearms
CDF recently released its annual Protect Children, Not Guns report in conjunction with the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the news is bad: After a decade of decline prior to 2005, the number of firearm deaths among children and teens increased for the second year in a row. CDF’s report shows that every two hours and 45 minutes a child or teen is killed by a gun. That’s almost nine children and teens each day and 61 every week.
California had more shooting deaths of children than any other state in the nation: 511 gun deaths of children in 2006, up from 474 in 2005. More children died from firearm deaths in California in 2006 than in New York, Texas and Arizona combined.
To view charts, read more key findings and learn how to take action on this important issue, visit CDF website.
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