For Black children, specifically, gun violence has been the leading cause of death since 2006. TREVON BOSLEY: Just growing up in that environment, you have to move differently.

Too many children, especially Black kids, are victims of gun violence. This isn’t normal. Nobody should be OK living in a country where gun violence happens so frequently.

A statistic featured in Ad Council public service ads obscures the fact that it’s true for teens, but not children.

The gun-death rate for children is nearly five in every 100,000. It was flat for more than a decade starting in 2000, and most years fewer than three in every 100,000 children were killed by guns.

Racial and ethnic differences in gun deaths among kids are stark. In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population ...

Rates of gun assaults on children roughly doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study that looked at gun deaths and injuries in four major cities. Black children were the most ...

That follows more than 4,700 gun deaths in this age group in 2021 and more than 4,300 gun deaths in 2020. Black children and teens bore a disproportionate share of those deaths, with a gun ...

Recall that despite making up 15 percent of the children in America, Black boys and girls represented almost half of all gun deaths involving kids last year (h-a-l-f, do you hear me?) and that ...

Firearms are the No. 1 cause of death for children and teens in the U.S. Take these life-saving precautions to protect kids — whether or not you own a gun.