By Rachana Pradhan & Fred Clasen-Kelly – U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared firearm violence a public health crisis, as gun deaths and injuries punctuate daily life in America. On nearly every day of 2024 so far, a burst of gunfire has hit at least four people somewhere in the country. Some days, communities have endured four or five such shootings.
The Biden-Harris Administration takes additional actions to address mental health needs of young people and make communities safer from gun violence.
By Robert Otto Valdez PhD MHSA – The recent shootings in a Colorado nightclub and a Virginia store are among the over 615 mass shootings recorded this year, as of early December 2022. And the year is not done. The thousands of people killed and wounded by these acts of violence pose a heavy burden of grief upon…
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