Child and Teen Gun Injuries 15,576 children and teens were injured by guns in 2010.* n
This means: • 1 child or teen was injured every 34 minutes. • 43 children and teens were injured every day. • 300 children and teens were injured every week.
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The estimated number of children and teens injured by guns in 2010 increased by 13 percent, with 1,785 more injuries than the year before, bringing the number of injuries up to the level last seen in 2005.
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Assault and self-harm injuries increased in 2010, while accidental injuries decreased.
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Seventy-eight percent of all gun injuries for children and teens in 2010 were the result of assaults (12,077 injuries), 19 percent were accidental (3,019) and three percent were self-inflicted (480).**
Rates of Gun Injury Among Children and Teens, by Manner, 2001–2010
Injuries per 100,000 Children and Teens
25
20
Total
Accidental
Assault
Self Harm 18.7
17.9
14.5
15 11.4
10 6.3
5
3.6 0.6
0.2
0 2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Non Fatal Injury Reports. Accessed through the Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS). Based on data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS). Data are only available since 2001. Represents estimates extrapolated from the number of gun injuries reported by a nationally representative sample of emergency rooms. Estimates are unstable due to small numbers for the Hispanic and Other categories for all years as well as for Blacks in 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2010 and Whites in 2004, 2008, and 2010.
* This number is an estimate extrapolated from the number of gun injuries reported by a nationally representative sample of emergency rooms. * * Estimates of self-harm injuries are unstable due to small numbers.
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