Gun Safety Strategy
33. Gun Safety Strategy There is so much potential to make positive changes which will reduce the number of firearm fatalities and injuries in the United States. In this chapter, we will consider a 20-point strategy which if followed would dramatically reduce the overall number of firearm-related fatalities and injuries. The strategy consists of a mixture of publicity, education, realism, enforcing existing laws, and introducing new laws, all of which have the sole purpose of saving lives. 1. Keep publicizing the fact that America does have a gun problem. Despite overwhelming evidence that there is a gun problem, there is a reluctance to accept this obvious fact. The extent of America’s gun problem is detailed in Step 1 of this book but can be summarized by the following fact reported in the American Journal of Medicine “US homicide rates were 7.0 times higher than in other high-income countries, driven by a gun homicide rate that was 25.2 times higher” [i] . This is a...