The Gun Violence Epidemic Gunfire kills 30,000 Americans every year.
Gunfire disproportionately kills the young.
People in their early twenties are also more likely to use a gun to take their own life. Every day, students like us mourn friends, classmates, siblings, and childhood playmates who died from gun violence. We have volunteered our time in schools where students struggle to learn because of the preoccupying threat of gunfire. Duck and cover has made a comeback. Our generation is learning to cower under our desks- not in fear of Soviet bombs but in fear of neighborhood arsenals.