Each day in America, nearly eight children and teens die by gunfire - more young people are killed by guns than cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined.- Children's Defense Fund

As a health care professional, you have a vested interest in the well-being of your patients. To assure that your patients remain healthy and safe, you not only have to treat them but you have to educate them.

Gun violence continues to be a growing epidemic in America, consuming the lives of 30,000 Americans every year.

While there is no pill that can keep your patients safe from this epidemic, there is a way for you to help raise the odds in their favor - prevent gun violence through education.

Children who find a gun are likely to play with it. View the results of this 2001 study.

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