Guns leading cause of death for children and teens for third year in a row [Video]

Gun violence was the leading killer of children and teens across the US for the third year in a row, according to a new Johns Hopkins University analysis.

Guns killed 2,526 children between the ages of 1 and 17, an average of seven youths slain a day, according to an analysis of 2022 data released by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions.

The problem is even more accurate for children of color. More than half of black teens aged 15 to 17 were killed by a gun in 2022, and Black children and teens overall had a gun homicide rate 18 times that of their white peers.

Black, Hispanic, and Latino youth also had rates of gun suicide multiple times higher than white children.

Overall, between 2013 and 2022, the youth gun rate doubled.

The center called for …