Guns play a significant role in youth violence. They are used in 46% of adolescent suicides and 93% of adolescent homicides — the second and third highest causes of death for kids ages 14 to 17.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from 2017 and 2019 says that 6.8% of males and 1.9% of females of these ages carried a gun at least once in the previous 12 months.
