ANN ARBOR (WKZO AM/FM) — While the latest school safety recommendations out of the Department of Education ignored the gun issue, a study released just this week by the University of Michigan focuses directly on the issue of guns and kids.
It states that that 15 percent of the children and young adults who died in 2016 were killed by gunshot wounds.
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It claims more than three-thousand American youth between 1 and 19 years old were killed by firearms.
More than a thousand adolescents used a gun to kill themselves. The number one cause of death that year for youth was vehicle collisions.
Firearms were the second most frequent cause of death.
Childhood cancer was third on the list.
