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标题：Tendrils of Hope in the Gun Epidemic: A Public Health of Consequence, November 2019
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作者：Sandro Galea ; Roger D. Vaughan
期刊名称：American journal of public health
印刷版ISSN：0090-0036
出版年度：2019
卷号：109
期号：11
页码：1490-1491
DOI：10.2105/AJPH.2019.305338
出版社：American Public Health Association
摘要：We are writing this editorial just days after mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, resulted in 31 people dead and more than 50 people injured. The US national conversation has been, over the past 48 hours, ablaze with commentary about the need for policy efforts that reduce the consequences of gun violence. And guns have come, once again, to dominate the political conversation. In some ways this cycle is familiar. Although firearm mortality in the United States has been roughly at the same level for nearly 20 years (although there has been an increase in the past couple of years), attention to the issue has crystallized around mass shootings, particularly since the Newtown, Connecticut, shootings in 2012 when 26 students were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Parkland, Florida, shooting in 2018, when 17 students were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, catapulted a new generation of student-led activism to the fore, making gun violence part of the ongoing national conversation. Although mass shootings account for fewer than 2% of all the gun-related fatalities in the United States, they have served to focus public attention in a way that the more than 36 000 annual deaths from firearms, most from suicide, have not..