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1 day ago · CNN —. Gun violence in the United States is an urgent public health crisis that demands the “collective commitment of the nation” to stop it, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says in a new ...
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- Jen Christensen
1 day ago · America’s top doctor issued a first-of-its-kind advisory on Tuesday declaring gun violence a national public health crisis and recommending it be treated as such. The 40-page publication from U ...
Jan 12, 2022 · And while many Americans know that 2020 was a particularly bloody year—with homicides surging 29 percent, with 77 percent of them involving firearms—few realize that gun violence has been...
Oct 24, 2022 · Police departments across the US define violent crime in slightly different ways, but the data generally includes murder, robbery, assault and rape. In 2000, there were over 500 violent...
- Jake Horton
2 days ago · “The members of the American Psychiatric Association have become all too familiar with suicides and homicides involving gun violence and the additional impacts on people’s mental and physical health,” said American Psychiatric Association CEO and Medical Director Marketa Wills, M.D., M.B.A.
12 hours ago · The American Academy of Family Physicians, for example, has considered gun violence a public health epidemic for over a decade. “Family physicians have long understood, and have seen first hand, the devastating impact firearm violence has on our patients and the communities we serve,” the group’s president, Steven Furr, said in a statement.
May 14, 2024 · The footprint of gun violence in the U.S. has expanded, as shootings worsened in already suffering neighborhoods and killings spread to new places during the pandemic years.
