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Forum Presents Sobering Look at Gun Violence in America
By jjie.org - Gary Gately
Published: 10/22/2013

Consider some of the sobering statistics of gun violence in America:
  • Guns are the second-leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 19, and the leading cause of death among black children and teens.
  • Guns kill seven children and teens daily.
  • Since 1963, three times more children and teens have been killed by guns on American soil than U.S. soldiers killed in wars abroad.
Against this backdrop, clergy, children’s activists and others converged on the nation’s capital Sunday for a forum and service aimed at ending the epidemic of gun violence.

The Children’s Defense Fund and the Washington National Cathedral hosted the forum, held at the cathedral, and the CDF’s 22nd annual Children’s Sabbath. (Other Children’s Sabbath services were held Sunday at hundreds of houses of worship.)

“We are here today because I believe very deeply that the greatest threat to our national security and to our children’s present and future lies within us and not outside our borders,” said Marian Wright Edelman, CDF’s president and founder, who served as the forum’s moderator. “Our children are dying in our homes, on our streets, in our schools and communities from guns.

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