Gun violence was the least researched of the 30 leading causes of death in the united states. Overall funding for this was less than point seven % of diseases with similar mortality burdens on lake sepsus. The number of people doing research in this area could be counted on basically two hands.
America’s gun violence epidemic is a public health crisis. After 24 years of blocked funding, Congress is finally starting to treat it like one.
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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