MORNING HEADLINES | Firearms are the No. 1 killer of children in the United States, and no group suffers more than young Black people, according to research by Jonathan Jay, an associate professor in the School of Public Health at Boston University.
“We saw gun violence exposure go up for every group of children, except White children, in the cities we studied,” Jay said, also adding, “It has all the markers of an epidemic. It is a major driver of death and disability. Gun violence does not get the attention it deserves. It is underrecognized because it disproportionately impacts Black and brown people.”
Rather than bolstering efforts to save lives, officials in the federal, state, and local governments have often undermined them, according to a report by KFF Health News. It undertook an examination of gun violence since the pandemic, reviewing government reports, academic research and interviewed dozens of health policy experts, activists and victims or their relatives…