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More than 15% of childhood deaths in America are due to guns

December 22, 2018

More than 3,000 children and adolescents died of a gunshot wound in the United States in 2016, a new tally of childhood deaths finds. These episodes accounted for 15.4% of all Americans between the ages of 1 and 19 who died in 2016, and a quarter of those killed by injury rather than disease.

The LA Times covered this student in a recent feature.

Read the full article here: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gun-deaths-children-20181219-story.html

Parents Who Lost Children in School Shootings Find Comfort in a Group No One Wants to Join

December 19, 2018

In November 2018, TIME Magazine profiled parents across the US who have lost children in school shootings.

“An invisible network of… threads connects hundreds of grieving parents across America. The connection is not formal. There is no organizational structure, no listserv, no roster of names. But their bond is strong enough that they often describe themselves—glibly but also in earnest—as “the club.” There is only one criterion for membership: you sent a child to school one day and then never saw them again because of a bullet, leaving you with pain, loss and perhaps even other shattered children. “It’s a club you spend your whole life hoping you won’t ever become a part of,” says Nicole Hockley, whose son Dylan, 6, was killed in the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. “But once you’re in, you’re in.”

Read full story here: http://time.com/longform/school-shooting-parents