I tried to solve the great gun mystery at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It didn’t go well | Opinion
By David Mastio
Updated June 14, 2025 4:42 PM
You wouldn’t think it would be hard to get the world’s leading gun violence researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to tell you what the leading cause of death is for children. At least, you know, if it actually was firearms.
While the school’s report, Gun Violence in the United States 2022, says over and over again that guns are the leading killer of children and teens age 1-17, it never says what the leading killer of children not including teens is.
It isn’t like they don’t think the results for children are important. You have to wait all the way to the bottom of the first page of the report for them to define what they mean when they say children (age 1-9) and teens (10-17), but they never quite get around to saying what kills those kids age 1-9.
That made me curious, especially when I learned this month that the Ad Council was launching a multimillion-dollar, multiyear public service campaign telling parents that their kids are in danger because guns are the number one killer of children(!) and teens.
This is important. It matters whether what they are going to tell parents is actually true.
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