But they have tough gun laws

BY PHILLIP REESE
preese@sacbee.com
April 04, 2018 04:00 AM
Updated April 04, 2018 09:03 AM

The recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla., left 14 youths dead and reignited a debate about gun control.

In California, about that many youths have been murdered by other people every three weeks, on average, during the past 30 years. Most of the deaths involve firearms. Because such killings are common, they receive much less attention than a mass school shooting.

Roughly 8,600 Californians under age 18 were murdered between 1987 and 2016.

▪ Youth homicides peaked during the gang violence of the early 1990s and then dropped significantly, though more than 100 children are still murdered in California each year.

▪ The most common motive for youth murders was gang violence.

▪ Firearms were used in more than two thirds of youth murders.

▪ Among cities, youth murders are most common in Compton in Los Angeles County. The county also has the highest rate of youths killed in the state.

▪ Blacks were nine times as likely as whites to be a youth murder victim. Hispanics were nearly three times as likely as whites to be a youth murder victim.

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