GUNS & YOUTH
FACT 1: Children and young adults (24 years of age and under) constitute 38% of all firearm deaths and non-fatal injuries.
FACT 2: In the United States, over 1.69 million kids age 18 and under are living in households with loaded and unlocked firearms.
FACT 2: In the United States, over 1.69 million kids age 18 and under are living in households with loaded and unlocked firearms.
Guns and Our Younger Generation.
If you read the newspaper and/or turned on the television to see the news, you may have questioned to yourself what is this world coming to and begin to think whether our schools and neighborhoods are a safe place for our children. Our youth are faced with an ever-growing problem of gun violence. However, violent behaviors start from within the environment where children have been exposed too. Household, poor communities and schools as well have put children at risk.
If you read the newspaper and/or turned on the television to see the news, you may have questioned to yourself what is this world coming to and begin to think whether our schools and neighborhoods are a safe place for our children. Our youth are faced with an ever-growing problem of gun violence. However, violent behaviors start from within the environment where children have been exposed too. Household, poor communities and schools as well have put children at risk.
Are our children raised be infatuated with guns?