Children Are Dying Because Of Americans' Denial About Guns

[moriah]

60. Stopping parents from murdering their kids because of religious delusions and...

... refusal of mental health treatment?

Giving more support and funding to both mental health and child protective services, and in particular ensure services are available to post-partum women and stigma taken from seeking help.

The last mom of five I remember murdering her kids because of religious delusions did it with dihydrogen monoxide, which unequivocally kills more children each year than knives or guns. And so do cars, surpassing both.

But half of the homicide deaths among children aged 6-11 are from guns. https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/187239.pdf . Many of those are "negligent homicide" deaths. Only 6% in that age range were gang related.

Edit to add: Yes, this is old data. Before the wave of school shootings. But it does highlight something very specific about how middle childhood is essentially the safest time for a child. Even though this data partially highlighted the gang violence epidemic in the late 90s, they noticed that the data and patterns for middle childhood stayed the same through the worst of the rise in homicide deaths among teenagers. If there is a more recent study showing a different level of gun-related deaths, and the pattern (firearm negligence or murder) in that age range now, that would be very interesting and I am going to Google myself for more. But I would suspect the percentages are at least what they were then.