School Shootings in U.S. Reach Highest Recorded Levels
U.S. school shootings rose in frequency over the last 25 years and reached their highest recorded levels, data analyses showed. Across the 1997-1998 to 2021-2022 school years, there were 1,453 shootings, according to Luke Rapa, PhD, of Clemson University in South Carolina, and colleagues. The number of shootings ranged from a low of 15 in […]
Opinion | ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Are a Greater Health Threat Than Mass Shootings
Another week, another series of mass shootings in America leaving two dozen dead in three states. Having spent my career on the frontlines as a trauma surgeon and gun violence prevention researcher, I want to highlight a recent report by the RAND Corporation. In it they concluded that stand-your-ground laws — which declare that people […]