09-23-2006, 10:55 PM
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More Children Killed by Firearms in One Year than Three Years of American Soliders in Iraq
The Children?s Defense Fund (CDF) releases its report on gun violence against children, ?Protect Children, Not Guns,? at a time when major U.S. cities are calling for strategies to combat illegal firearms. Citing the most recent data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the report reveals that 2,827 children and teens died as a result of gun violence in 2003 ? more than the number of American fighting men and women killed in hostile action in Iraq from 2003 to April 2006.
?Just as gruesome as incoming casualties from a battlefield, the bodies of young gunshot victims stream into urban hospital trauma centers on the frontlines of an undeclared war on America?s children,? said Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children?s Defense Fund. The children that die every year from gunshot wounds come from all racial groups and are all ages. Some of the children killed by guns are too young to start kindergarten.
?The deaths of thousands of children each year is morally obscene for the world?s most powerful nation, which has more resources to address its social ills than any other nation,? said Edelman.
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