Guest column: How guns became the leading cause of death among children
Several hundred people march down Madison Avenue during a Nov. 14, 2020 Unity March to end gun violence. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian file)
Linda McFadyen-Ketchum
Linda McFadyen-Ketchum is a volunteer co-lead for state legislative work for the Tennessee chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
“For most of my long life, car crashes, cancer, drowning and sudden infant death were the leading causes of death for kids – not guns.”
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