That’s according to “Protecting the Parkland Generation,” a new report released Wednesday by the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, an arm of former Rep. Gabby Giffords’ gun safety group. Among the statistics in the report: Nearly 60 percent of high school students say they’re afraid of gun violence occurring at their school or in their community. Seventh- and eighth-grade students who reported direct exposure to gun violence showed a 36 percent increase in recent aggressive behavior. “There is a trauma happening on American children that, until the Parkland shooting, was not talked about widely,” Robyn Thomas, executive director of the Giffords Law Center, told HuffPost. It’s about the anxiety and all of the ripple effects on children.”The sheer number of American kids experiencing gun violence is staggering.

Source: Huffington Post March 07, 2018 19:56 UTC