Citation

Rosenberg ML. JAMA Psychiatry 2013; 70(10): 1007-1008.

Affiliation

Emory University, Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Decatur, Georgia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, American Medical Association)

DOI

10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.2492

PMID

23925927

Abstract

In 1983, I joined the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, to help start a program to use scientific research to understand gun violence as a public health problem. In the 1990s, the National Rifle Association (NRA) killed that program.

Since the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, the national statistics on gun violence have been widely reported. Firearm-related deaths number more than 30 000 each year, and two-thirds of these deaths are suicides. Tens of thousands more people are seriously injured by guns. Those injuries impose significant burdens for care and rehabilitation on families, communities, and the health care system.

Language: en