Gun violence must be tackled like any other public health epidemic

Modern Healthcare: San Bernardino, Calif., Colorado Springs, Colo., Roseburg, Ore., Charleston, S.C., Watertown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., Blacksburg, Va. The routinization of mass murder in the U.S. continues apace.

The overall statistics may not show an increase in the number of Americans killed by firearms each year. But the horrific nature of recent mass slaughters reveals a tragic truth: The proliferation of guns in our society has been, and continues to be, one of the nation's leading threats to public health.

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