{"id":7085,"date":"2007-04-17T19:05:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T19:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/17\/firearms-deaths\/"},"modified":"2007-04-17T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T19:05:08","slug":"firearms-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2007\/04\/17\/7085\/","title":{"rendered":"Firearms deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are all horrified by the senseless murders at Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, VA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Historically, homicide has been the second leading cause of death among the young people of college agent following unintentional injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Deaths from firearms among 18-22 year olds:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Year<\/td>\n<td>Deaths<\/td>\n<td>Rate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1999<\/td>\n<td>2,442<\/td>\n<td>12.54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2000<\/td>\n<td>2,482<\/td>\n<td>12.52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2001<\/td>\n<td>2,614<\/td>\n<td>12.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<td>2,658<\/td>\n<td>12.89<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2003<\/td>\n<td>2,694<\/td>\n<td>13.01<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2004<\/td>\n<td>2,477<\/td>\n<td>11.95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The CDC provides public use databases for<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/webapp.cdc.gov\/sasweb\/ncipc\/mortrate10_sy.html\" title=\"Injury death database\" rel=\"noopener\"> fatal injuries<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/webapp.cdc.gov\/sasweb\/ncipc\/leadcaus10.html\" title=\"Leading cause of death database\">leading causes of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are all horrified by the senseless murders at Virginia Tech at Blacksburg, VA.\u00a0 Historically, homicide has been the second leading cause of death among the young people of college agent following unintentional injuries. Deaths from firearms among 18-22 year olds: Year Deaths Rate 1999 2,442 12.54 2000 2,482 12.52 2001 2,614 12.82 2002 2,658<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,62348,20939,63685,59554,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}