Citation

Graham F. Nature 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/d41586-022-01515-3

PMID

35641610

Abstract

Leading journal Science and magazine Scientific American have simultaneously published impassioned editorials calling for changes to gun laws in the United States.

"The science is abundantly clear," write the editors of Scientific American. "More guns do not stop crime. Guns kill more children each year than auto accidents. More children die by gunfire in a year than on-duty police officers and active military members. Guns are a public health crisis, just like COVID, and in this, we are failing our children, over and over again."

"Scientists should not sit on the sidelines and watch others fight this out," argues Science editor-in-chief H. Holdenr Thorp. "If children do not feel safe, they cannot learn. And a country that cannot learn cannot thrive. A nation of children threatened by gun violence does not have a future."

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