United States of America Closing the year 2022 with more than 100 6,000 children were injured or killed firearm, It’s the highest figure ever recorded by the NGO Gun Violence Archive, which has been collecting this statistic since 2014.
Total 1.631 minors they were shot In a year marked by firearm violence following the massacres in Buffalo (New York) and Uvalde (Texas), according to data the organization released this Tuesday.
Moreover, He was wounded by 4,400 small bullets.
There are 324 more children than in 2021, when statistics began to be collected, and 3,111 more than in 2014.
This year, 43,675 people died as a result of firearm violence, most of them (23,826) suicides.
They also registered 639 batcheswhat the organization defines as events involving four or more people in addition to the shooter.
In May, an 18-year-old white supremacist broke into a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, killing ten people, most of them African-American, with a semi-automatic rifle.
A few days later, another 18-year-old teenager, also armed with a semi-automatic rifle, was shot dead by police after breaking into a school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 students and two teachers.
Events helped The US Congress ratified a historic treaty in June, To increase, at least minimally, control of firearms purchased by persons under the age of 21.
The agreement also extended the so-called “Red Flag” laws to the entire country, already in place in states such as California, New York, and Florida, allowing for the activation of a legal procedure for the seizure of firearms by those who pose a danger. to third parties or themselves.