RT Journal
A1 Mozaffarian D, Hemenway D, Ludwig DS
T1 Curbing gun violence: Lessons from public health successes
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2013
FD February 13
VO 309
IS 6
SP 551
OP 552
DO 10.1001/jama.2013.38
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2013.38
AB 
The tragic slaughter of innocents in Newtown, Connecticut, has horrified and refocused the nation on the burden of gun violence. Each year in the United States, more than 30 000 individuals are killed by guns1 (homicides, suicides, and unintentional fatalities)—85 deaths per day plus many hundreds of nonfatal injuries. Gun homicide alone causes 11 000 deaths each year,1 more than all US troops killed throughout the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remarkably, the 26 deaths in Newtown represent fewer gun homicides than the daily US average.