Every day, seventeen children lose their lives due to gun violence in the United States, amounting to roughly 6,000 deaths annually. This staggering number far exceeds the fatalities during the peak of the polio outbreak, which claimed around 3,000 lives each year in the 1950s. Despite the grave impact of gun-related deaths on children today, society has not responded with the same urgency and mobilization as it did against polio.
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