Shootings have killed more than 800,000 people and injured over 2 million others in the United States since the start of this century. In March, dozens of violence prevention leaders convened in Chicago at the JAMA Summit on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms to discuss steps to reduce gun violence, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The report, published on Nov. 3, shows that the 60 leaders who attended the summit represented multiple disciplines. They included emergency physicians, public health scholars, psychiatrists, historians, and social workers. The summit was the first of its kind, presented by the medical journal. Its purpose: to develop a roadmap for substantially curtailing the number of shooting deaths and injuries over the next 15 years. Read more at blackenterprise.com.
