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Abstract
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Two thousand six hundred twenty-nine.
That is the number of people hurt by a gun in 12 zip codes of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, between 2014 and 2018, according to "Association of Neighborhood Gun Violence With Mental Health-Related Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization," by Vasan et al in this issue of JAMA Pediatrics.1 In the 2 most affected zip codes in this study, approximately 500 people (0.5% of these zip codes' population) were injured by a firearm over the 4 years. In other words, on average, someone in these zip codes was shot every 3 days. Imagine being a child in one of these zip codes. The chance of having had a friend, family member, or schoolmate injured is high...
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