Julvonnia McDowell was making dinner one evening when she got a call saying that her 14-year-old son, JaJuan — a gentle boy who loved animals, who was so generous that he gave a pair of shoes to a classmate who was being teased — had been shot. He was visiting a relative’s home when another teenager pulled a gun out from a drawer, where the firearm had been stashed under a T-shirt. “JaJuan told him to put it away, but the other teenager said that it wasn’t loaded, not realizing it was loaded,” s
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Despite the large burden of firearm fatalities, a recent study found out that a noticeable gap in gun violence fatality rates by racial and ethnic groups increased in recent years.
Despite its flaws, such as a reliance on biased statistics and a lack of causal factors, the report has been embraced by the legacy media and has proliferated across the internet.