“Every week, an average of 88 children are expelled from American schools for bringing a gun to class…A survey by the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development suggest that nearly a quarter of the boys had carried a weapon (a gun, knife, or club) in the past month, and some fifteen per cent – nearly 2 million students – had taken one to school. Another study by the non-profit Josephson Institute of Ethics reported that almost half of high school students said they could get a gun if they wanted to…When homicide, suicide and accidental death are taken into account, the death rate from guns in the US is by far the highest in the developed world; one study found that, for children under fifteen, the firearm-related death rate in the US was nearly twelve times higher than the average of 25 other industrialized countries.” – quoted from “50 Facts That Should Change The World” by Jessica Williams
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