Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence.

doi:10.7205/milmed-d-15-00568

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IntroductionFirearm-related violence has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people in the United States.2
On January 16, 2013, President Barack Obama announced Now Is the Time, a plan to address firearm violence1 in order “to better protect our children and our communities from tragic mass shootings like those in Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, and Tucson” (White House, 2013a, p. 2)
The research agenda proposed in this report is intended as an initial, not a conclusive or all-encompassing, set of questions critical to developing the most effective policies to reduce the occurrence and impact of firearm-related violence in the United States

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Firearm-related violence has claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people in the United States.2 By their sheer magnitude, injuries and deaths involving firearms constitute a pressing public health problem. Firearm-related injuries and deaths have devastating health consequences for individuals, families, and communities In addition to these individual, familial, and community effects, public mass shootings have huge consequences for the larger society as it attempts to respond to such tragedies. All these events occur in the context of a civil society that has millions of guns lawfully owned by citizens who use them for protection, hunting, sport, or work. Critical information is needed to improve our understanding of how best to prevent firearm-related violence and its consequences, including

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