Children Are Dying Because Of Americans' Denial About Guns [View all]

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On the study in Pediatrics reporting the large number of American kids being killed by guns

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarahaelle/2017/06/19/american-denial-about-facts-on-guns-continues-to-kill-children/#315466384a9a

Until the U.S. as a whole decides to recognize and accept what the tremendous cost of current lenient gun laws is, more than 1,000 more children will die next year. And the year after that. (Read here how to reduce your child's risk.)

Deaths of children and teens under 18 years old had been declining from 2006 to 2013, but they have increased over the past two years, just as the number of guns owned in the U.S. have dramatically increased.

One in ten children’s deaths in 2014 and 2015 resulted from a gunshot wound, noted Eliot Nelson, MD, a professor of pediatrics at University of Vermont Children’s Hospital in Burlington, in a commentary about the new study.

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Here's a kid who was killed at Sandy Hook because America loves guns. A child. Shot to death by a shooter who should never have had access to the guns that killed this child.

Her name was Olivia Engel. She was 6. She is dead.