"Can We Stop The Gun Violence Epidemic? Yes, By Treating It As A Health Crisis" - Kenneth L. Davis, MD

After each new episode in our nation’s worsening gun violence epidemic, the same two things happen: First, our screens and social media feeds are saturated with hauntingly familiar images — and then we’re told that it’s too soon to talk about gun laws. We need to break this cycle. Kenneth L. Davis, president and CEO of the Mount Sinai Health System writes, “For physicians, this is particularly poignant. While the rest of the country sees the television coverage from a distance, we see the trauma up close. Medical workers don’t have the luxury of becoming desensitized to the repetitive violence. Which is why we also know that the predictable, repetitive conversation — the misguided idea that it would be easier to address mental health than fix our insanely insufficient gun safety laws — must stop.” He added, “We need to treat gun violence like the health crisis it is. We should prevent gun deaths the same way we’ve prevented deaths from cigarette smoking, or car crashes, or curable diseases.”

- Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President, CEO, Mount Sinai Health System

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