loved ones friends and family on what regular bases do to combat. the student from chicago addressed an issue that is often forgotten in the media shooting in schools is not even the biggest gun problem in the united states of the almost 35000 people killed by gun violence in 2017 the majority were victims of suicide followed by homicide only about one percent were victims of shootings like the one in pocket and. we ve traveled to chicago the city with the most gun violence victims in the us on average around 600 people are shot here every year as many as new york and los angeles combined but these things don t happen downtown in the center of this prosperous city. a few kilometers away in the west side of chicago one of the main african-american districts it s one of the most violent