Kids and guns: 'These are not isolated tragedies'

Chris Engel 4/24/134:10 PM

"When we started coding the trauma data, which includes all types of childhood injuries that turn up at these trauma centers, and we noticed the morbid pattern of gun violence-related injuries for children ... that shifted the focus of the study to document violence related to injuries involving gunshots."

"The data, she said, showed a surprising number of children were being injured, many of them seriously, by guns.

"We had the impression that mass shootings caused so many injuries and those normally do get a lot of national attention, but in looking at the numbers, gun violence was happening to children on a routine basis, and it was mostly happening out of the spotlight," Sauaia said. "These are not isolated tragedies."...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/24/health/kids-guns-study/?hpt=he_c1

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