U.S. Gun Violence during the Covid Crisis: Teenage Deaths and Injuries Increased by 64.8%

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By Gun Violence Archive and Global Research
Global Research, April 05, 2023
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The following table. from the Gun Violence Archive confirms a significant increase of reported cases of deaths and injuries during the three year period of the Covid Crisis (2020-2022)

Guns Violence Deaths (wilful malicious accidental) as defined in the Table Below have increased from 15,509 in 1919 to 20,200 in 2022, an increase of 30.2%. 

Children killed or injured has increased by 43.0% (1919-2022)

Teens aged 12 to 17 killed or injured has increased by 64.8%. (1919-2022)

Did the Fear Campaign, which commenced at the outset of the Covid pandemic in late January 2020 play a role?

The March 2020 Lockdown confined people in their homes, paralyzed economic activity and triggered poverty and despair.

The data below requires careful analysis as to the causes of this dramatic hike in Gun deaths and injuries.

Michel Chossudovsky, April 5, 2023

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Gun violence  and crime incidents are collected/validated from 7,500 sources daily –

Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

Number of Deaths in 2023

 

Children Killed or Injured in 2023

Teens Killed or Injured in 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Notes (based on the first table)

  1. Number of source verified deaths and injuries
  2. Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified
  3. Calculation based on CDC Suicide Data
  4. Actual total of all non-suicide deaths plus daily calculated suicide deaths

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