Anna Meigs

Gun deaths are the leading cause of death for U.S. children and teens (ages 1-19), a crisis that is uniquely American among high-income nations. U.S. children are roughly 21 to 23 times more likely to be killed with guns than their peers in other developed nations. We are allowing a kind of national abuse of children to occur. The day of remembrance is to increase public awareness of this on going national trauma around gun deaths of children.