The Misleading Narrative of Firearm Deaths as the Leading Cause of Child Mortality: A Closer Look at the Data

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”

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One of the key talking points among progressives in recent years is that firearms have become the leading cause of death among children in the United States. This claim has been heavily cited from reports such as the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions' "A Year in Review: 2020 Gun Deaths in the U.S." The re…