Unintentional shootings by toddlers and pre-kindergarteners have increased while those among high schoolers have decreased.
Source: Everytown Research analysis of #NotAnAccident Index, 2015–2024.
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Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.
Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.
Last updated: 1.15.2026
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