Gun violence deaths in US in year after Parkland: 1000+ kids

After the slaughter of 14 students and three adults in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, parents demanded new laws and students lit up social media. They registered young voters and organized a massive rally called the March For Our Lives. They called their movement Never Again. Then it happened again — 94 days later. Eight students and two teachers were mowed down by a gunman at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas. And it happened again and again, in dribs and drabs, on street corners, in backyards and in homes: young people obliterated by gunfire. Sign Up and Save Get six months of free digital access to The Bellingham Herald Jai Gillard, a freshman at Santa Fe High School in Texas, leaves a message on a cross, one of 10 placed in front of the school in honor of the eight students and two teachers killed by a 17-year-old classmate on May 18, 2018, three months after Parkland. Scott Olson Getty Images The 12-month period starting Feb. 14, 2018, saw nearly 1,200 lives snuffed out. That’s a Parkland every five days, enough victims to fill three ultra-wide Boeing 777s. The true number is certainly higher because no government agency keeps a real-time tally and funding for research is restricted by law. The Trace[1], an online nonprofit news organization that covers firearms issues, wanted to commemorate those lost lives. It assembled a team of more than 200 journalists — kids themselves — to research and write short portraits of every victim, 18 and under. On the anniversary of the Parkland massacre, The Trace is publishing those portraits[2]. In conjunction, the Miami Herald and McClatchy are presenting a series of stories on the year in gun violence against children. Drive-bys to accidents When they weren’t taking cover from school shooters,

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