Nearly a third of all of the children in the United States end up exposed to weapons violence before they reach the age of 18, according to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics which also found about 1 in every 33 to have been directly assaulted with either guns or knives during such incidents.
Kimberly Mitchell, the study’s lead author and a scientist with the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, was quoted by Reuters as having said that millions of kids “are being exposed to violence involving weapons, and many of them are victimized by guns and knives, with an elevated risk of trauma and serious injury.”
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