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60 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol'y 235 (2019)
Gun Violence Prevention 2.0: A New Framework for Addressing America's Enduring Epidemic

handle is hein.journals/wajlp60 and id is 245 raw text is: Gun Violence Prevention 2.0: A New Framework for Addressing America's Enduring Epidemic Mike McLively* The gun violence debate in this country has felt frozen for many years, and a re-framing of the issue from the perspectives of public health and human rights has the potential to help us as a society to re-think this epidemic in a way that could be truly transformative. My name is Mike McLively and I'm a Senior Staff Attorney at Giffords Law Center, where I direct our Urban Gun Violence Initiative.' My organization is named for Gabby Giffords, the former Congresswoman who was shot in the head in Arizona in 2011.2 We are a national organization dedicated to reducing gun violence in America. Our goal is to continue to push for better gun laws and policies in this country, while also recognizing that the law has a role to play in directly supporting evidence-based, community-driven solutions to gun violence. We advocate for the scaling up of those solutions in our most impacted communities, which all too often are underserved communities of color. Gun violence is an American epidemic that claims more than 30,000 lives each year and leaves tens of thousands of people injured.4 In the face of these statistics, and as we start to talk about important but also sometimes abstract notions like human rights, it's easy to become numb to the pain this epidemic is bringing to our friends, neighbors, and fellow Americans every single day. So, I want to reflect for just a moment on *. Mike McLively is a Senior Staff Attorney at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He is the director of Giffords' Urban Gun Violence Initiative, where he oversees an effort to use policy mechanisms to support and promote evidence-based violence intervention strategies to reduce gun violence in America's most impacted communities. This article is an edited version of remarks he gave on November 2, 2018 at the Harris Institute conference on Interdisciplinary and Human Rights Approaches to the Gun Violence Crisis in the United States. Learn more about Giffords' work at www.1awcenter.giffords.org. 1. Intervention Strategies, GIFFORDS LAW CTR. TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE, https://lawcenter.gifford s.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/intervention-strategies (last updated July 16, 2017). 2. Arizona Safeway Shootings Fast Facts, CNN (Dec. 31, 2018, 7:17 AM) https://www.cnn.com/2013/ 06/10/us/arizona-safeway-shootings-fast-facts/index.htnl. 3. GIFFORDS: COURAGE TO FIGHT GUN VIOLENCE, https://giffords.org/ (last visited Jan. 3, 2019). 4. Fatal Injury Data, CTR. FOR DISEASE CONTROL, https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/fatal.html (follow WISQARS hyperlink; choose year(s) and follow Explore Data hyperlink) (last reviewed Oct. 3, 2018). 235

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