Reducing gun violence: Stanford scholars tackle the issue
UPDATED: March 24, 2021
After recent shootings at a grocery store in Boulder, Colorado, and at a spa in Atlanta, Georgia, many Americans are asking, yet again, how to prevent future acts of senseless violence from occurring. Concerns are being raised about the causes and solutions to gun violence: Why are so many people killed each year by guns? What gun laws need to be changed? How can Second Amendment rights be balanced with firearm safety?
Stanford scholars have been studying these issues from a range of perspectives, including law, politics, economics and medicine. Here are some of their findings.