As many who are pediatricians or know pediatricians are aware, the quest to end gun violence is a passion for our profession and an advocacy issue of utmost importance for our professional organization, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Having practiced in areas with a high incidence of gun violence for most of my career until recently moving to California, I have seen first-hand how this tragic issue affects the children and families for whom I care.
Two years ago a teenage girl was shot and killed steps from the entrance to my North Philadelphia office in the middle of the afternoon on her way home from school. The father of a family whose children I cared for was robbed at gunpoint and killed one evening right outside of his car at a convenience store while his children watched from inside the car. Another family took in mom’s 4-year-old nephew after her brother, who was his sole caregiver, was caught in the crossfire of a shooting and killed. These stories that so rarely even make the news these days are no less heartbreaking than the mass shootings that do and tug at the heartstrings of the entire community.
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