A Child Is Shot To Death Every Other Day In America
831A grim new statistic is putting the spotlight back on the youngest victims of gun violence, three years after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
On Monday, NBC News reported that at least 555 children under the age of 12 have been shot to death in America since Dec. 14, 2012, the day a heavily armed gunman entered the Newtown, Connecticut, school and killed 26 people, including 20 students. That's a rate of about one child every other day, which, according to federally collected data, appears to be consistent with pre-Sandy Hook rates. (The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention breaks out deaths for the age group 14 and under, so it's hard to make a direct comparison.)
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