Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge?
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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