Gary Younge Quotes

#1. The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas.

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#2. Firearms are the leading source of death among black children under the age of nineteen and the second leading cause of death for all children of the same age group, after car accidents.

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#3. Michael Brown, the hapless director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, responded, "We're seeing people that we didn't know exist.

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#4. My aim here is to put a human face - a child's face - on the "collateral damage" of gun violence in America.

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#5. To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.

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#6. Herein lies one of the most tragic elements to emerge from my research: that every black parent of a teenage child I spoke to had factored in the possibility that this might happen to their kid. Indeed,

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