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Gun Violence Is Killing More Kids in the U.S. Than COVID-19
When will we start treating it like a public health issue?time.com
s millions of American children celebrated July 4 by viewing fireworks and having their imaginations sparked for a brighter future ā at least six of our nationās children were shot and killed by stray bullets, including 7-year-old Natalia Wallace, who was shot in the forehead as she played in her grandmotherās yard. This past Sunday, 1-year-old Davell Gardner Jr. was shot and killed in New York City while sitting in his stroller at a family cookout. Day in and day out, we justifiably discuss COVID-19 and the risks of reopening schools for our children, but we canāt even seem to guarantee that our children wonāt be shot and killed while playing with friends or sleeping soundly in their beds.
Unfortunately, similar to the politicization of COVID-19, we continue to make gun violence a political issue rather than a public health one, which if we have learned anything from this current pandemic, portends a dire outlook for the future.
Nowadays, the chances that your child will die from COVID-19 remains a real but very low threat; however, in many parts of the country, the threat of being killed by a firearm is a much bigger concern. And the spike in gun violence that we witnessed this month goes far beyond kids, with 65 people shot in New York City over that weekend and 87 people shot in Chicago, not to mention shocking numbers of firearm homicides countrywide. These grim statistics come as a stark reminder, as if another reminder were needed, that gun violence remains our nationās most dire and most frequently ignored public health epidemic. We canāt afford to ignore it any longer.
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Jul 06, 2020 Ā· At least six children were killed by gun violence over the holiday weekend, sparking calls from officials in three cities to end the shootings.At least 6 children were killed by gun violence across the nation this holiday weekend
At least six children were killed by gun violence over the holiday weekend, sparking calls from officials in three cities to end the shootings.www.cnn.com- Children ages 7, 8, and 14 killed as gun violence mars ...
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Jul 06, 2020 Ā· Children ages 7, 8, and 14 killed as gun violence mars holiday weekend in Chicago and Atlanta At least 72 people were shot in Chicago since early Friday morning, 15 fatally.
If the democrat party would stop releasing violent gun criminals from jail and prison, we could stop these shootings. But you can't push gun control if people aren't getting shot. Since normal Americans don't use their legal guns for crime and murder...who else is going to do the killing the democrats need to push gun control?