> Some 6,464 deaths involved children between 5 to 14 years of age, amounting to 340 deaths annually on average. A further 32,478 children between 15 to 18 years old died, or 2,050 per year on average between 1999 and 2017.

> Of these children, 61 percent were killed in an assault involving a firearm, while 32 percent died by suicide. A further 5 percent died in an accident. The death was undetermined in 2 percent of cases.

It seems misleading to me to include suicide counts in a headline that says “shot dead”.

Removing suicides, this comes out to 1625 per year. Approximately 900,000 people in total die in the US per year.

What they are describing as an epidemic is in reality 340 deaths per year of under-14s.

For reference, approximately 450 people per year die of acetaminophen (tylenol) poisoning in the US.