The federal government is finally funding research on gun violence. The first big place that we need knowledge is around just that basic data. What can we do to increase protection for people who have a firearm in the home? Where fire arms are prevalent or where firearm injury is prevalent. And then the last bucket of research is, how do we put it in place once we know what wor how do we standardize it and implement it? In some ways, that's the toughest part. It may be round changing the engineering of firearms. It could be around community interventions or one on one,. change hospital base, changes a whole list of things we could be doing in interventions.
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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