Did you know that guns are the leading cause of death among American children and teens. 1 out of 10-gun deaths are age 19 or younger.2
Did you know that firearm deaths occur at a rate more than 5 times higher than drownings?
Now check this out, did you know that the U.S. has had 2,032 school shootings since 1970 and these numbers are increasing?
Would you believe that 948 school shootings have taken place since the tragedy at Sandy
Hook Elementary School in December 2012?
Did you know that School shootings have returned to pre-COVID levels and by some accounts have even increased?
Did you know that since the attack at Columbine High School in 1999, nearly 300,000 students have been on campus during a school shooting?
Did you know that there is help on how to stop school shootings and other violence?
Now check this out, around 4.6 million American children live in a home where at least one gun is kept
loaded and unlocked?
Did you know that improperly stored weapons have contributed to school shootings, suicides and the deaths of family members, including infants and toddlers?
Would you believe all large majority of parents with a weapon in the home believe that their children don’t know where a gun is stored?
Did you know that safe storage of firearms prevents tragedies?
Would you believe that guns used in about 68% of gun related incidents at school were taken from the home of a friend or relative?
This is hard to believe, that In 4 out of 5 school shootings, at least one other person had knowledge of
the attacker’s plan but failed to report it?
Did you know that the Secret Service and Department of Education found that 93% of school shooters planned the attack in advance?
This is unbelievable that almost all mass school shooters shared threatening or concerning messages or images prior to the attacks?
Can you believe this, that more than 75% shooters had displayed warning signs which could have prevented school shootings?
Did you know that children living in poverty – urban and rural – are more likely to die due to gun violence than their more affluent peers?
Did you know that about 1 out of 5 gay and lesbian youth have been threatened or injured with a weapon on school property?
This is crazy, that a black youth are four times more likely to be killed with guns than their white peers?
Did you know that 90% of teenagers killed in an act of dating violence were girls?.
The Reality of Gun Violence in America it has to stop