Homicides of children soared during the first year of the pandemic, becoming the leading cause of death among under-18s.The US is an outlier among other developed nations in that firearms are a major driving factor in the murder rate, which has steadily increased by an average of more than four percent since 2013.Homicides saw a particularly ‘precipitous’ rise from 2019 to 2020 — spiking from around 1,600 to more than 2,050, a rise of 28 percent. That was fueled by a sharp jump in firearm-related homicides in minors - which rose by nearly 50 percent between 2019 and 2020.
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