Racial Gaps in Gun Violence Against Kids Increased During COVID
According to a new study, Black, Hispanic, and Asian children experienced substantial spikes in firearm assault injuries during the first 21 months of the pandemic, while white children did not experience an increase in firearm assault injuries at all. “We knew there were large overall increases in firearm injury rates, and we hypothesized that the increase was disproportionately concentrated in children of color, but we would have expected some increase among white children, and we saw none,” says corresponding author Jonathan Jay. “I think that speaks to the extent to which white children, on average, are insulated from gun violence exposure by social advantage and neighborhood context.” Learn more.