In 2022, more than 6,000 children and teens were injured or killed in shootings, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive.
were injured or killed in shootings, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. That's the most in a single year since the database began tracking nine years ago.
As the epidemic of gun violence continues to wreak havoc on the nation, here's how shootings affected America's children in 2022.More than 1,300 teens were killed and nearly 3,800 injured in 2022, according to the archive. More than 300 children were killed and nearly 700 injured. Those figures includes homicides, accidental discharges and more but do not include suicides.
While the number of children injured and killed by gun violence has remained steady in recent years, the number of teens has been rising each year since at least 2019, according to the archive.
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