安省几乎每天有青少年中枪 移民难民子女比例高

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A young person is shot in Ontario almost every day, study reveals
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In the study, based on government health and immigration databases and published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, a team of Toronto researchers found Canadian-born youth, particularly males, have higher rates of unintentional firearm injuries compared with immigrant youth.

The study found there was an average of 355 firearm injuries a year between 2008 and 2012. A total of nearly 1,800 firearm injuries were reported among children and youth in Ontario during that period.

Canadian-born males suffer 12.4 such injuries per 100,000 people — 72 per cent higher than the 7.2 among immigrant males.

However, the risk of being a victim of intentional firearm assault is 43 per cent higher for refugees, at 4.7 per 100,000 people, than for non-refugees (2.4 per 100,000 people), the study found.

In addition, immigrant children and youth from Africa are almost three times as likely, and those from Central America are more than four times as likely, to be victims of such targeted firearm assault than their Canadian-born counterparts, according to the study by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. Dr. Natasha Saunders, the study’s lead author and a pediatrician and associate scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children, said the findings are astonishing.
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