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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Jessica Beard and Elinore Kaufman

US government cuts imperil life-saving gun violence research. As doctors, we fear for the future

flowers, crosses and candles adorn a memorial for victims of a mass shooting
A makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting at Robb elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on 27 May 2022. Photograph: Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

We don’t have a reliable count for how many people have been shot in the United States this year. We don’t know how many were shot last year either. Or the year before that. These most basic numbers should inform our gun violence prevention efforts. But they don’t exist.

This is the void of information that is created and persists when critical research is suppressed.

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