Pew Research Center - In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.

( Gerd Gigerenzer -Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Psychological Review © 2017 American Psychological Association 2017, Vol. 124, No. 2, 179–196) Ignorance is generally pictured as an unwanted state of mind, and the act of willful ignorance may raise eyebrows. Yet people do not always want to know, demonstrating a lack of curiosity at odds with theories postulating a general need for certainty, ambiguity aversion, or the Bayesian principle of total evidence.