Guns kill nearly 1,300 children in the U.S. each year and send thousands more to hospitals

Monday, June 19, 2017 - 20:31 in Health & Medicine

Handguns and other firearms cause the deaths of more children in the United States each year than the flu or asthma, according to a comprehensive new report on gun violence and kids. Each day in the United States, an average of 3.5 people under the age of 18 are shot to death and another 15.5 are...

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