"By enacting simple laws that make guns safer and harder to get, we can
prevent killings like the ones in Uvalde and Buffalo"

"The science is abundantly clear: More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill
more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by
gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military
members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this,
we are failing our children, over and over again.

In the U.S., we have existing infrastructure that we could easily
emulate to make gun use safer: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Created by Congress in 1970, this federal agency is
tasked, among other things, with helping us drive a car safely. It
gathers data on automobile deaths. It’s the agency that monitors and
studies seat belt usage. While we track firearm-related deaths, no such safety-driven agency exists for gun use.

During the early 1990s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
began to explore gun violence as a public health issue. After studies
tied having a firearm to increased homicide risk, the National Rifle Association took action, spearheading the infamous Dickey Amendment,
diverting gun research dollars and preventing federal funding from being
used to promote gun control. For more than 20 years, research on gun
violence in this country has been hard to do.

What research we have is clear and grim. For example, in 2017, guns
overtook 60 years of cars as the biggest injury-based killer of children
and young adults (ages one to 24) in the U.S. By 2020, about eight in
every 100,000 people died of car crashes. About 10 in every 100,000
people died of gun injuries."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-science-is-clear-gun-control-saves-lives/

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