Commentary: A public health solution to gun violence?
As trauma surgeons with more than 60 years of collective experience caring for victims of firearm violence, we have struggled as our patients - many of them children - died or were permanently disabled from preventable gun-related injuries. We have seen the agony in the eyes of their families. The U.S. is in the midst of the largest wave of mass firearm violence in modern history, yet polar political battles over "gun control" rage on, resulting in more division and no meaningful actions to reduce firearm injuries and deaths.
A solution to this impasse can
