Explore the interactive map above to learn more about the children under 12 who have died from gunshots since the Newtown, Conn., slayings on Dec. 14, 2012, and the circumstances in which they died.

To learn more about longer-term data and trends involving homicides of children, click here to examine 25 years of FBI data.

Or you can read about what the data show about the relative dangers of school shootings by clicking on the link below:

Amid the Newtown remembrances, little attention paid to near daily drumbeat of child gun deaths

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