How many kids died in 2008 in the u.s buy guns?

Answer 1

The question is difficult to answer for several reasons. For starters, many gang-members are teenaged, and when killed by rival gang members or in confrontations with armed citizens or police officers, they are often counted as being children killed by guns.

In addition, what age is set as the line between childhood and adulthood varies by the group collecting statistics, further muddying the data.

If 18 is the cut-off, as it is in many studies, then 17 and 18 y/o soldiers and killed in wars have been counted as children killed by gun violence. One study even included 21 y/o individuals! As a vast majority of infantrymen are very young, this further skews the data.

A study by John Lott, which excluded gang on gang violence and "children" in careers involving combat found that roughly 1300 children were killed by accidental shootings and the like per year. To put that in perspective, Swimming Pools, pillows, staircases, and cars kill thousands more each year in the USA.