The problem of gun violence in the US is deeply complex and especially serious among developed nations in the world. Despite being declared as a major public health issue in 1989 by the American Medical Association Council on Scientific Affairs, gun violence has received remarkably little attention from researchers, due to political controversy and lack…
Seventeen dead in Parkland. Twenty-six dead in Sutherland. Forty-nine dead in Orlando. Twenty-seven dead at Sandy Hook. Fifty-eight dead in Las Vegas. As death tolls continue to climb and the frequency of mass shootings increase, gun violence has become one of the leading causes of premature death, killing more than 30,000 people and causing nearly…
The shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on October 1, 2015, which killed 9 people and wounded 9 more, brought the frightening reality of mass shootings back into focus. Not that such shootings were out of the public eye for long: on June 18, 2015, nine people were killed at the Emanuel African…