@article{ref1,
title="Shannon Watts: fearless gun safety advocate",
journal="Lancet",
year="2024",
author="Clark, Jocalyn",
volume="403",
number="10425",
pages="e425-e425",
abstract="&quot;There are 400 million guns in a country of 330 million&quot;, says Shannon Watts, the dynamic founder of Moms Demand Action, a grass-roots network in the USA that advocates for public safety measures to prevent gun violence. &quot;Every day, 120 Americans are killed with guns and more than 200 are shot and wounded. Since 2020, guns are now the leading cause of death among children aged 1-19 years in America&quot;, she explains. Watts attributes the harms from gun violence to a &quot;gun culture&quot; tied to the Second Amendment of the US Constitution guaranteeing the right to bear arms in a country where the powerful gun lobby group the National Rifle Association (NRA) uses its substantial budget and support to influence members of Congress on gun policy. Yet Watts highlights how &quot;There is such a strong misperception that guns are polarising when in fact the majority of Americans support common sense gun control laws&quot;, she says. &quot;The problem is that a vocal minority of gun lobbyists have been very influential in law-making.&quot;<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-6736",
doi="10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00144-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00144-2"
}