How Come The Shootings Don’t Stop?

Back in 2014, I organized the first, national conference on gun violence which was accredited for continuing medical education. The conference was held at the headquarters of the Massachusetts Medical Society and was attended by many of the gun-violence researchers, along with representatives of the various advocacy groups.

Over the next decade, these kinds of meetings where activists and researchers get together to come up with strategies for reducing or controlling gun violence have become de rigueur in academic and advocacy circles, with such events taking place on a regular basis and attracting the usual mélange of well-intentioned individuals to share thoughts and ideas about a problem of national concern.

To put this problem into perspective, this past weekend saw 6 people shot and at least 3 killed in Philadelphia, including a city bus driver and an 88-year-old grandfather sitting on his front porch.

There were only 2 people killed by gunfire in Chicago over the weekend. There were also 17 other people wounded by shootings.

Obviously, the shooters in the City of Brotherly Love spend more time at the range practicing their gun skills than what happens in America’s Second City.

According to the CDC, the year we held out first, national conference on gun violence in 2014, there…