Suicide — Where The Guns Are

  A quick look at the statistics on gun violence in America from a recent study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) in November, might cause you to avert your...

American Carnage

  On February 6, 2018 we counted 12 acts of gun violence on school property in the United States in the month of January alone. Less than two weeks later, The PediaBlog was trying its best to come to grips with the gun massacre that killed 17 students at Marjory...

This IS Our Lane

  Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on changing trends in deaths from firearms in major U.S. metropolitan areas in it’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recently, firearm homicide rates in large metro...

June 21 Is National ASK Day

  Today is National ASK Day. It’s the first day of summer and The PediaBlog has been here before: This one question could save your child’s life some day: “Is there an unlocked gun where my child plays?” Maybe as a parent you think this question in your...

Suicide Is A Public Health Crisis

  Yesterday on The PediaBlog, we looked at the rising death-toll from mostly preventable accidents in children and teenagers. Traffic accidents, firearm violence, and opioid overdoses are causes we see and hear about all-too-often when we find enough courage to...