{"id":3225,"date":"2023-01-03T06:47:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2023-03-15T02:30:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T07:30:52","slug":"a-record-number-of-americas-kids-were-injured-or-killed-by-gunfire-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"<strong>A record number of America&#8217;s kids were injured or killed by gunfire in 2022<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was less than an hour into 2022 when the first child was shot.\u00a0The 14-year-old girl was standing outside watching fireworks in St. Louis when a bullet\u00a0hit her in\u2002the arm.<br \/>\nIn the year since, more than\u00a06,000 children and teens\u00a0were injured or killed in shootings, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. That&#8217;s the most in a single year since the database began tracking nine years ago.<br \/>\nAs the epidemic of gun violence continues to wreak havoc on the nation, here&#8217;s how shootings affected America&#8217;s children in 2022.<br \/>\nWhat to know about child gun deaths, injuries\u00a0in 2022<br \/>\n\uf0b7More than 1,300 teens (ages 12-17) were killed and nearly 3,800 injured in 2022, according to the archive. More than 300 children (ages\u00a011 and younger) were killed and nearly 700 injured. Those figures\u00a0include homicides, accidental discharges and more but do\u00a0not include suicides.<br \/>\n\uf0b7Though\u00a0the number of children injured and killed by\u00a0gun violence has remained steady in recent years, the number\u00a0of teens\u00a0has been rising each year since at least 2019, according to the archive.<br \/>\n\uf0b7A\u2002decade since the mass shooting\u00a0at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, took the lives of 20 first-graders and\u00a0six staff members, dozens of kids were killed at school, and there was a record number of shootings on school grounds.<br \/>\nWhat about school shootings?<br \/>\nOf all kids affected by gun violence last year, a\u00a0small percentage were shot at school.<br \/>\nIn 2022, there were\u00a050 school shootings\u00a0that resulted in injuries or deaths, according to Education Week. At least 31 children were killed in the shootings, including 19\u00a0murdered at Robb Elementary School\u00a0in Uvalde, Texas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2023\/01\/02\/record-number-kids-shootings-2022\/10956455002\/\">Usatoday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was less than an hour into 2022 when the first child was shot.\u00a0The 14-year-old girl was standing outside watching fireworks in St. Louis when a bullet\u00a0hit her in\u2002the arm. In the year since, more than\u00a06,000 children and teens\u00a0were injured or killed in shootings, according to the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive. That&#8217;s the most in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3366,1247,3060,1612,3365,3364,1537,1198],"class_list":["post-3225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-children-in-america","tag-death","tag-gun-violence","tag-law","tag-nonprofits","tag-school-shootings","tag-shootings","tag-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7571,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions\/7571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}