Is gun violence an epidemic in the U.S.? Experts and history say it is

Six months into the year, more than 21,000 people have died because of gun-related injuries in the United States.

Doctors and public health officials have a word to describe the rising number of people killed or hurt by guns in recent years: epidemic.

“I would certainly consider the problem of firearm injuries and firearm violence as an epidemic in the United States,” said Patrick Carter, director of the University of Michigan Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention , whose research is partly funded by the National Institutes of Health.”When we think about what the term epidemic means, it means a sudden increase […]

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