First-Ever Accounting Of Child Gunshot Deaths And Wounds

Terrible Tally:  500 Children Dead From Gunshots Every Year, 7,500 Hurt, Analysis Finds by Bill Briggs, NBC.  October 26, 2013.

(1)  The rate children and teenagers die in hospitals every year has increased by ___________ percent in a decade.

(2)  The number hospitalized after being wounded by gunfire has spiked by more than_______ percent from 1997 to 2009.

(3)  __________ of every 10 firearm wounds were inflected by handguns.