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General News    H4'ed 4/14/15

Guns To Surpass Car Accidents As Leading Cause Of Deaths Among Young People

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"Guns kill a lot of young people in the United States. Not just in school shootings or horrific 'accidents' between toddlers that tend to garner the most media attention, but in every day shootings in communities around the country that result in the deaths of thousands of children and teenagers.
In 2010, 6,201 young people between the ages of 15 and 24 died by gunfire. Guns were a close second to the leading cause of death among this age group, car accidents, which took the lives of 7,024 young people that year. But, while car-accident deaths among young people have been steadily declining over the past decade, gun deaths have remained relatively unchanged. And, as described in a new Center for American Progress report released Friday, if current trends continue, gun deaths will surpass car-accident deaths among young people some time in 2015."
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