America’s home crisis: imagining communities where kids do not carry guns
Abstract
Although recent statistics suggest a downward trend in homicide rates in major US cities, gun-related deaths remain a formidable menace in this country.1 In no demographic is this more troubling than children. Firearm injuries are the leading cause of death among children in the USA.2 These victims among our nation’s most vulnerable serve to, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “remind America of the fierce urgency of Now.”3
Fields of Study & Subjects
Gun Ownership and Violence Research
Homicide
Infanticide
and Child Abuse
Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- e002206–e002206
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN