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Terrible Tally: 500 Children Dead From Gunshots Every Year, 7,500 Hurt, Analysis Finds

[NBC News Health] About 500 American children and teenagers die in hospitals every year after sustaining gunshot wounds — a rate that climbed by nearly 60 percent in a decade, according to the first-ever accounting of such fatalities, released Sunday. In addition, an estimated 7,500 kids are hospitalized annually after being wounded by gunfire, a […]