Gun Violence and Health Care

Physician Gary Slutkin spent a decade fighting tuberculosis, cholera and HIV/Aids epidemics in Africa.

When he returned to the United States, he thought he had escaped brutal epidemic deaths.

But then he began to look more carefully at gun violence, noting that its spread followed the patterns of infectious diseases.

Slutkin's theory is revolutionary because it is among the first to treat gun violence not as a moral or political problem, but as a medical issue to be solved using scientific methods.

  alJazeera

A good first step might be to repeal the ban on federal research into gun violence.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.