This is on point. I'm Megna Chakrabardi.

Today, the leading cause of death among children is no longer car accident, is no longer illness

or malnourishment. The leading cause of death among children is a firearm. The leading cause

of death of children is a firearm.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer spoke those words in May of 2022. On May 24th of that

year, an 18-year-old gunman murdered 19 children and two adults and injured 17 more at Rob

Elementary School in New Valday, Texas. Schumer was citing data from the CDC, data that's

now being widely shared again after last week's mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.

The CDC had found that between 2019 and 2020, the number of children who died due to

firearms jumped 30 percent. Just 5 percent of those deaths were accidental shootings. A third

were by suicide, and 65 percent of those kids were killed by violent assault with a gun.

The vast majority of which took place not at schools, but in American neighborhoods.

All told, it made 2020 the year where guns became the number one killer of American children.

But for some kids, 2020 was nothing new. For black children specifically, gun violence has been

the leading cause of death since 2006.

Just growing up in that environment, you have to move differently. If it was a car that was

driving down the block too slow or drove around two times, you have to be vigilant. You can't walk

around with two headphones in because you have to always be able to hear for your surroundings.

And you just are constantly just being prepared for whatever might happen.

This is Trevon Bosley. He grew up in Roseland, one of Chicago's most dangerous neighborhoods.

At a point, I didn't see myself reaching past the age of 18, and many of them in these communities

are just trying to take it one day at a time. They don't see it. See 16, and the trauma that just

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