DAILY GUN VIOLENCE IMPACTING CHILDREN AND TEENS (1-17)
Every day, 23 children and teens (1-17) are shot in the United States. Among those:
- 6 die from gun violence
- 3 are murdered
- 17 children and teens survive gunshot injuries
- 8 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive
- 2 children and teens either die from gun suicide or survive an attempted gun suicide
- 8 children and teens are unintentionally shot in instances of family fire — a shooting involving an improperly stored or misused gun found in the home resulting in injury or death