This week the Surgeon General declared gun violence a public health crisis.

He cited the estimated 50,000 Americans who die every year in gun-related incidents.

According to the gun violence archive, there have been more than 8,200 gun deaths so far this year.

Nearly 700 of them, children and teens.

With school shootings on the rise over the past two decades, children and parents are increasingly worried about the safety inside the classroom.

But as William Bringham tells us, a new analysis finds that more and more incidents of gun violence are happening just beyond school

walls.

From 2014 to 2023, communities across the country saw more than 188,000 shootings within 500 yards of a school.

That is an average of 57 shootings per day.

This comes from a new analysis done by the Trace, which is a

nonprofit news organization that covers gun violence. Analyzing data from

almost 150,000 public and private schools.

The Trace found that just last year,

six million kids had a shooting occur near their school.

Olga Pierce is one of the journalists who did this analysis.

Olga, thank you so much for being here and sharing this really tremendous piece of

reporting with us. When we think about school shootings, I think most people think of the

massacres that happen, New Town, Yewvaldi, Columbine, etc. But you guys chose to

broaden the lens and look at shootings outside of schools. Why that focus?

Obviously school shootings inside the school building are a traumatic and dramatic event and they

deserve our attention but those are very rare compared to the frequency of

shootings we found around schools.

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