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From KQED, Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Nina Kim. Coming up on forum, after mass shootings or during heated debates about gun laws, one group of victims is often overlooked.

Children. Each year in the U.S., thousands of children are killed or injured after finding

unsecured guns in their homes. Millions more endure psychological wounds, from losing loved ones

or from school lockdowns and other reminders that the threat of gun violence is near.

In his new book, Children Under Fire and American Crisis, Washington Post reporter John Woodrow

Cox tells the stories of these children.

He joins us after this news.

This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Eight people are dead after a shooter opened fire at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis. And that number only accounts for the mortal toll. Not the mental and emotional toll the shooting will exact on loved ones, whole communities.

And as John Woodrow Cox tells us, on children.

In his new book, Children Under Fire, Cox shows the price being paid by kids for our nation's

many gun deaths and also the unrelenting threat of them. John Woodrow Cox, welcome to Forum.

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