US gun violence is a health crisis with evidence-based solutions, experts plea

Doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, health experts, and scientists are once again demanding a long-awaited solution to American gun violence after the slaughter of 21 people, including 19 children in a Texas elementary school.

Dr. Bindi Naik-Mathuria told NBC that this is very much our lane.

She spoke about the impact that weapons like the AR-15 have on a human body. In the Uvalde, Texas school shooting this week, the shooter used a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 rifle, which he bought online. In mass shootings, the rifles used are often the AR-15-style rifles. They use the same caliber of bullets. The bullets don't always pass cleanly through flesh, but can instead become unstable and tumble, causing devastating damage that can leave victims unrecognizable and with an extremely low chance of survival.

The hole on the outside is not the only one. Naik-Mathuria told NBC that it was a huge blast effect. The vessels are disrupted. There is no way to save them.

The bodies of some of the fourth- graders killed in this week&s shooting were so grave that authorities had to use DNA testing to identify their small corpses.

Naik-Mathuria said that they have their hands in these people, trying to save them.

Public health’s lane

The National Rifle Association tried to do that, but medical and health experts continued to insist that this is their lane, starting the online movement.

More than 60-year streak of being the leading cause of death in children and teens has been overtaken by firearm injuries. According to an analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the relative rate of firearm-related deaths of children and adolescents rose between the years of 2020 and 2019. The crude rate of firearm homicides in children and teens rose by 33 percent.

This is about protecting people's health. Michael Dowling, president and CEO of New York-based Northwell Health, told the Hospital Review this week that gun violence is not an issue on the outside. Every hospital leader in the United States should be screaming about this.

The US has a lot of guns and gun tragedies. According to a report by the Small Arms Survey, Americans own an estimated 393.3 million guns. The number is likely to go up today. The US is the top-ranked country in the world for gun ownership. Canada has the second-highest rate of gun ownership among high-income countries, with 34.7 guns per 100 residents, less than a third of the US rate.