Protect children, not guns

Is protecting our children important to us as a nation? On June 12, the Children's Defense Fund released our annual report on gun violence against children, Protect Children Not Guns. The report shows that the 2,827 children and teens who died from gun violence in 2003 - just one year - is higher than the number of American fighting men and women killed in hostile action in Iraq from 2003 to April 2006 three years. The bodies of young gunshot victims are streaming into urban hospital trauma centers on the frondines of an undeclared war on Americais children.

The children who die every year from gunshot wounds come from all racial groups and are all ages. Some of them are too young …