A least 100 children killed by guns since Newtown...

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...from the Slate How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown? site.

Slate considers a Child as a person 12 or under. The number of reported gun deaths of children now stands at 100. The number does not include the 20 children killed at Newtown.

The total gun death count stands at 5224. The age of 63 of the victims is unknown.

Of the 100 children killed, 70% (70) were male and 30% (30) were female. Although the sample size is small (100), this ratio is a little surprising. For adult gun deaths reported 84.4% were male, 15.6% were female. For teens (age 13-19), 85.3% were male, 14.7% were female. So, female children were shot at almost twice the rate for the female adult and teen victims. Again, the sample size is small.

The distribution of age for the children is:

Less than 1: 6 deaths
Age 1: 6 deaths
Age 2: 11 deaths
Age 3: 10 deaths
Age 4: 10 deaths
Age 5: 7 deaths
Age 6: 3 deaths
Age 7: 2 deaths
Age 8: 5 deaths
Age 9: 5 deaths
Age 10: 13 deaths
Age 11: 6 deaths
Age 12: 16 deaths

So ages 0 to 3 account for 33% of the deaths, 4 to 8 for 27%, and 9 to 12 40%. The middle third of the age range accounts has a slight dip in the number deaths. Again a small sample size, so probably not statistically significant.

A bit less than 6 months to go in the year.

Slate added the following comment to the site yesterday.

Update, June 19, 2013: As time goes on, our count gets further and further away from the likely actual number of gun deaths in America—because roughly 60 percent of deaths by gun are due to suicides, which are very rarely reported. When discussing this issue, please note that our number is by design not accurate and represents only the number of gun deaths that the media can find out about contemporaneously. Part of the purpose of this interactive is to point out how difficult it is to get accurate real-time numbers on this issue.

Using the most recent CDC estimates for yearly deaths by guns in the United States, it is likely that as of today, 6/20/2013, roughly 15,687 people have died from guns in the United States since the Newtown shootings. Compare that number to the number of deaths reported in the news in our interactive below, and you can see how undertold the story of gun violence in America actually is.