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Mass shootings are only a small part

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of America is deadly with kids

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and Guns by Josiah Bates.

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Hadiya, Pendleton was

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standing with friends, in a park on Chicago's

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South Side when she was shot

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and killed by a gunman who ran toward

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the group and opened fire. the

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fifteen-year-old King College Prep students

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death in 2013. May

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have never made headlines except for the fact

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that she had performed as part of a majorette

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Squad at President Barack Obama's

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second. just one

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week earlier the nation

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mourns the deadliest school shooting and

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nearly a decade and you've aldi texas

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a deist parents cleo and nathaniel pendleton

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are hoping murders like her daughters will

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be part of the larger conversation

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about the thousands of american children who

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were killed by guns each year most

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of whom never receive public attention

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when you talk about the impact that gun violence

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has own family's it's

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just a miss cleo pendleton

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who spoke with time to commemorate national

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gun violence awareness day on friday

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says we deal with it

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and we hear about it so frequently that

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people have started to become numb to it and

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normalize it every year

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more than thirty five hundred children and

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teens defined as and friends through

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aged nineteen are shot and

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killed in the us and another

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fifteen thousand are wounded

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in shootings according to centers for disease

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control and prevention data from twenty sixteen

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to twenty twenty which was analyzed

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by every town a nonprofit

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group that advocates for tougher gun

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laws and actions to address gun violence

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those deaths twenty one hundred

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or homicides most of them the

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result of either domestic violence or

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the kind of street violence that claims had the

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his life on average twelve

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hundred children a year die by suicide

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with a gun another one hundred

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thirty children and teens per year die

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from unintentional shootings on

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average fewer than thirty five children

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and teens are killed as a result of mass

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shootings a year even though for obvious

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and good reasons those tragedies

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often receive lots of attention experts

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and advocates like the pendleton to say that

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as the us is forced once again

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to confront the tragedy of children being

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gunned down in their schools saving

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the lives of children will require the country

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too seriously address gun

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violence and all forms in

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general mass shootings account for

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less than one percent of all firearms

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deaths in the united states that's for

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all ages doctor last leave

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an associate professor associate professor

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an emergency medicine at harvard medical school

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says when you look at it for

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children it's also less than one

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percent so they account for a very small

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number the problem is

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getting worse gun ,

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has trended upwards since the start

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of the pandemic and twenty twenty firearms

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became the leading cause of death for

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children and teens as of june

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first twenty twenty two six

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hundred eighty six children have been killed

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this year as this result of guns and

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seventeen hundred have been injured according

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to the gun violence archive gun

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violence site that collects gun violence

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data across the country the archive

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defines children as page infants to

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seventeen the majority

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of those shootings happen with

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an inner city minority communities black

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children are fourteen times more likely

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than white kids and teens to die as a result

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of gun violence this panic or

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latino children or three times

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more likely than white kids to die as

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a result of gun violence the put

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it plainly black and hispanic

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or latino children are severely

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more exposed to gun violence

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than whites children over

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memorial day weekend fourteen

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people were killed in shootings in philadelphia

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among the victims killed work to melt

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parks a nine year old

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and his father gerald parks the

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were sick in a car not far from their

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him seventeen year old

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boy and a sixteen year old boy

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were both wounded the baltimore

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of the same weekend three teams

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were shot one fatally and separate incidents

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inner city shootings which are also very tragic

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to the victims and families in the community occur

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more frequently and people

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can become desensitized to desensitized lisa

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because of the kinds of communities that are primarily

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impacted the public and policy

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makers are less invested in thinking about

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gun violence prevention interventions

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and those areas leo

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pendleton believes that there's a vicious

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cycle not gun violence in the us

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and because the problem appears so unrelenting

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many focus solely on law enforcement

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solutions we need to try

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more things outside of just locking

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kids zone the need to put money

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towards community resources cleo says

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we need to figure out creative solutions to

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help reduce the likelihood that this perpetual

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violence is going Continue. When

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it comes to protecting children Nathaniel

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Pendleton believes its importance to

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invest and Community Based Solutions,

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politicians, don't live in our

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neighborhoods. They just don't, I

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don't know experiences that we deal with.

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How can you make a decision on something?

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When you have no idea about

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how people in these neighborhoods, think

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the Faneuil says, with

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the summer months coming, which usually

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pretends a seasonal uptick in

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violence, experts and Community

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leaders. Hope that gun deaths are are viewed

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as a public health issue and are

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tackled as such. That

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means, there needs to be a comprehensive

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approach to addressing the problem.

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In addition to policing, that

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means Community investment legislation

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and people on the ground. Stepping

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up Pendleton's are continuing

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their and their community. And Beyond

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with the hopes that will begin to take

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this problem seriously, and

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so other children don't have to have their lives

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cut short. what stop talking

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about it we need to think and do something

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about it cleo pendleton says life

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should be more important than the right to

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bear arms idea and

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the right to live and not right

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was taken from her