«Though mainstream media coverage tends to focus on young white victims of school shootings, according to an analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017, black children are 10 times more likely than white children to be fatally shot by a gun.
As I’ve written before, America responds very differently to victims of school shootings than they do to victims of color who suffer from gun violence — a category that also includes police violence — on a regular basis. The latter is often met with indifference or even hostility, which opens up a complicated discussion about who gets empathy in America and what issues are deemed important in the public sphere.»
It’s not just school shootings; children across the US are dying from gun violence – Vox
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