Baby Loses Her Father To Gun Violence & Thinks His Picture Is Real

Baby Lost Her Father To Gun Violence & Thinks His Cut-Out Picture Is Real

A video is currently making rounds online, showing a baby’s reaction to her dead father’s cut out picture. In the emotional clip, the baby who lost her father to gun violence, saw his cut out photo and thought it was real.

She moved closer to him trying to communicate with the picture, but unfortunately he’s gone. According to reports, the young man was shot and killed amid the spike in gun violence in the country.

The video has since gone viral on social media, garnering lots of reactions from folks online. “Man kids suffers the most from losing a parent, niggas be happy about a body but not knowing someone kids go suffer on their bad days fr,” someone commented.

 

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“It’s 100% right to post that because now you can see how it’s going to affect your kids when you stay in the streets and die,” another person wrote. “We gotta start realizing we hurting the youth when we killing off all these fathers,” someone else added.

According to ABC News, almost 5,000 people have died in U.S gun violence so far in 2024. As of Feb. 15, at least 4,994 people have died from gun violence in the U.S. this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive – which is an average of about 108 deaths each day. Another 3,351 people have been injured.

Of those who have died from gun violence, 147 were teens and 31 were children. Last year, gun violence deaths and injuries decreased by at least 8% compared to 2022, with some cities seeing decreases of more than 20%, according to GVA.

There were 43,065 gun deaths in 2023, with more than 36,000 people injured. Gun deaths, excluding suicides, in 2023 were the lowest they had been since 2020. Injuries were the lowest they had been since 2019.