Wednesday, January 12, 2022

In America, a Child is Shot Every Hour, and Hundreds Die. Here are 13 Young Lives Lost in 2021

Read this and cry. I'm posting this piece from today's Washington Post not because I didn't think we had a crisis, but rather because I suspect that you, like me, don't know that children's deaths due to gun violence are THIS frequent. 

I can only imagine just how difficult it was for Cox, Davies, Johnson and Thebault to research and write this news story. However painful, without question, these stories must be told and heard lest their deaths—lives cut tragically short—be in vain. 

From a policy perspective, without this level of awareness, we're driving blindly. It's beyond sad that our country cares more about guns than gun violence. 

-Angela Valenzuela

In America, a Child is Shot Every Hour, and Hundreds Die. Here are 13 Young Lives Lost in 2021 


The country’s gun violence epidemic is
killing more children than ever. Who they
were matters just as much as how they died.


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