I also checked the numbers and the article doesn’t match. Its 44 per day figure would get to 16k, but their source starts “Between 2000 and 2020, the number of firearm-related deaths among children, adolescents, and young adults increased from 6998 (7.30 per 100,000 persons) to 10,186 (10.28 per 100,000 persons), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”.
That is lower and also includes “young adults”.
I haven’t looked deeper into it, but assume the article is doing some odd thing like distributing cases over school-days only.
I also checked the numbers and the article doesn’t match. Its 44 per day figure would get to 16k, but their source starts “Between 2000 and 2020, the number of firearm-related deaths among children, adolescents, and young adults increased from 6998 (7.30 per 100,000 persons) to 10,186 (10.28 per 100,000 persons), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”.
That is lower and also includes “young adults”.
I haven’t looked deeper into it, but assume the article is doing some odd thing like distributing cases over school-days only.