The Number One

For three consecutive years, gun injuries have been the number one killer of children and teens in America, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Regardless of where you stand on the gun issue, there’s one thing we can all agree on: That is not okay.

Here, four people with personal experience of how gun injuries are taking the lives of our kids — from a gun-owning pediatric trauma surgeon, to a mother who lost her son to an unintentional shooting — share their number one piece of advice for how we can put a stop to this statistic. Right now.