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Urbanization
A map of the United States showing the locations of gun-related deaths over the course of a month, approximately 1,200 deaths. The map uses red circles to represent incidents, with the size indicating the number of victims killed, ranging from one to four. Specific locations of mass shootings are highlighted with larger circles and labeled. The distribution of incidents is concentrated in the eastern and southern parts of the United States, with fewer in the western states.

The United States Can't Arrest Its Way Out of Gun Violence

by Caroline Nobo

Communities, hospitals, and prosecutors can play valuable roles in curbing gun violence

Governance
A line graph titled 'Gun Violence Leads U.S. Childhood Deaths' compares deaths by firearms and motor vehicle accidents among children and adolescents in the United States from 2018 to 2022. The vertical axis shows the number of deaths, ranging from 3,200 to 4,400. Firearm deaths, represented by a red line, surpass motor vehicle accident deaths, represented by a blue line, beginning around 2020. In 2022, firearms killed 4,608 children.

Solutions to U.S. Gun Violence Hinge on Election

by Sarah Muthler

Physicians are working to improve patient safety education but rely on research funding that is in doubt

Students create a human chain in memory of victims of the shooting at Prague University.
Governance

Tragedy in Prague Ignites Debate on Gun Control

by Ana Braun

The struggle between individual rights and public safety continues amid the mass shooting in the Czech Republic

Israeli soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion stand at attention during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem May 26, 2013,
Governance

How a Heavily Armed Country Cut Gun Suicide

Inside Israel’s suicide prevention programs

A white hand with the cuff of a blue jacket reaches out to tie an orange ribbon onto a chain-link fence covered in orange ribbons in honor of those killed by gun violence
Governance

Better Mental Health Care Is Unlikely to Fix America's Gun Problem

by Katherine Leach-Kemon, Laurent Grosvenor

But reducing alcohol use, promoting gun-free homes, and curbing domestic violence hold promise

Old coffee cans of shotgun shells dropped off to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department at the “Gifts for Guns” buyback in Compton, California on January 21, 2013. Picture shows two bright red, rusted out coffee tins filled to the brim with shotgun shells, red shells in the first tin, blue in the second. REUTERS/David McNew
Governance

The Global Experience of Gun Control

by Vin Gupta

Firearm Deaths, including suicides, are averted when treated as a public health problem—so why not in the United States?