Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children in the United States. Each year, more than 4,400 children and teens are shot and killed, and over 17,000 are shot and wounded--an average of 60 per day .

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. During the summer of 2006, while pregnant with her son, Julia Olson staggered through a then record-breaking heat wave in Oregon, as New Orleans was just beginning its long road to recovery after Hurricane Katrina hit the year before. At the time, Olson was a public interest environmental lawyer.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In 2019, 6-year-old Zacky Muñoz was eating his usual lunch of pasta, salad, and breadsticks at his school cafeteria in Pasadena, California. "I suddenly felt a weird feeling--it was like a fight-or-flight response, an alarm inside my body telling me I was in danger," he says.