profession in recent years. Members of both the medical and public health communities consider gun violence not only a criminal justice issue but also a public health threat. It is paramount to move away from the archaic Second Amendment Constitution arguments and partisan political ideologies and highlight the toll gun violence takes on public health. The ultimate goal is to reduce the incidence of gun violence in the same way public health targeted polio, smoking-related cancer, and car accidents. It
other guns from his mother’s collection. After shooting the principal and school psychologist, he walked into a first-grade classroom, where he shot and killed the teacher and fifteen of the sixteen students. Only one person in the room survived, a six-year-old girl who played dead until Lanza was gone. Lanza continued his killing spree throughout the school, killing a total of twenty children and six adults, wounding two others, and then finally shooting himself.” - Thinking Critically: Gun Control
Gun Violence in America In the last ninety days, there has been not one, but multiple reports of gun violence scattered throughout America. If America does not do something about it, then the numbers of violence will continue to increase year by year. While many incidents go unreported, The Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowd-sourced project of the anti-gun folks at the Guns Are Cool Subreddit, lists 204 mass shooting events so far in 2015 , and it's only October (Ingraham 2015). Every day, 297 people