Prognosis
Taking On Chicago’s Gun Violence With Public-Health Strategies
Amid a surge in firearm ownership, safety and education have gained a new urgency.
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Two weeks after Congress enacted the most significant gun control measures in decades on the heels of mass shootings in New York and Texas, a gunman opened fire on a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Ill., killing seven and wounding three dozen. The latest carnage only added to a sense of hopelessness in a nation looking for answers.
“In a country with 400 million guns already in circulation, US gun policies are not going to be a panacea,” says Roseanna Ander, founding executive director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. “What other levers do we have?”