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Reducing Youth Gun Violence - Office of Justice Programs

Reducing Youth Gun Violence: An Overview of Programs and Initiatives i FOREWORD Gun violence in the United States has become an epidemic. From the Civil War to the present, 567,000 Americans have died in combat; but since 1920, over 1 million American civilians have been killed by firearms (Pacific Center, 1994). Among teenagers 15 to 19 years old,