National Gun Violence Survivors Week February 1 - 7

Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns.

(Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, WONDER Online Database, Underlying Cause of Death. A yearly average was developed using five years of the most recent available data: 2016 to 2020.)

More people die from gun violence in the United States by early February than during an entire calendar year in other high-income countries

(Source: Everytown analysis of the most recent year of gun deaths by country (2015 to 2019), GunPolicy.org, accessed January 7, 2022).

According to a study by Everytown, 1 in 5 adults know or care about someone who was killed with a gun.

In the same article, Everytown for Gun Safety goes on to explain that 70% of black adults have experienced or know or care about someone who has experienced gun violence in their lifetimes.

(Source: Everytown.org/survivors, accessed February 5, 2023)

In their article, "Invisible Wounds: Gun Violence and Community Trauma among Black Americans", Everytown for Gun Safety provides some shocking statistics (according to the CDC) related to deaths in the black community due to gun violence.

• Black Americans are 10 times more likely than white Americans to die by gun homicide.
• Every 11 minutes, a Black American is shot and wounded.
• Every three hours, a young Black male dies by gun homicide in the United States.

(Source: Everytown.org/Invisible Wounds, accessed February 6, 2023)

As Everytown for Gun Safety explains, the trauma of gun violence does not end when the gun violence stops. Life as you have known it is never the same when that loved one is suddenly and tragically taken away. This is exactly the reality experienced by Founder and Co-Founder of the Johnny Leroy Dawkins Jr Scholarship Fund, Angela McDuffie and Dia Nyarko, along with family and close friends when Lee-Lee was killed due to gun violence. His parents were impacted, his children were impacted, his sister, his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbors, co-workers, the list goes on! The impacts of gun violence causes a ripple effect throughout families and communities that can last a lifetime. It's time for us to join together all over America, stand up, and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

We encourage all of our life changing supporters to join us in the fight against gun violence.

Checkout our post on Everytown for Gun Safety and the stories of other gun violence survivors.

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