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The news recently has been filled with gun violence.

 and killed after fights broke out in downtown Minneapolis.

And at the beginning of September, a student at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta 

killed two other students and two teachers

We often focus on the people killed by guns. But there were also people wounded at each of these recent shootings, people who will live for the rest of their lives with physical scars and mental trauma.

Two teenage girls and a young woman were injured in Minneapolis. Eighteen people were wounded in Birmingham.  A teacher and eight students survived Apalachee.

There were crowds of witnesses at each shooting diving for cover. Family members and friends who were not at the scenes are angry, grieving and scared. 

Recent research from the Violence Prevention Project Research Center at Hamline University shows that 

the mental health toll of gun violence is staggering

. Nearly half of all Minnesotans are afraid of being shot in a public place. Of those who have been at the scene of a mass shooting, 90 percent report suffering from anxiety, depression or PTSD.

MPR News host Angela Davis and her guests talk about the impact of gun violence on survivors and the broader community.

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In the news, we hear about people who are killed by gunfire, but what about the people who survive? MPR News host Angela Davis talks about the toll of surviving and witnessing gun violence.

The toll of gun violence on survivors

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The toll of gun violence on survivors

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