Gun violence is rising. Mass killings and school shootings represent a small part of the overall toll gun violence takes on Americans or even children specifically. But gun violence in general is also growing. In 2020, the most recent full year for which the CDC has data, gunfire injuries surpassed vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death for Americans ages 1 to 19, according to an analysis of the data by University of Michigan researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more at our link in bio.