A couple of months ago, I was invited to participate in an event at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., which was the site of a racially motivated shooting earlier this year. The purpose of the event was to bring together stakeholders from legal/judicial, health care, public health, law enforcement, political, faith and other communities to address gun violence prevention.
From the time I started preparing for this event in early October until it actually took place on Dec. 4, the United States witnessed more than 50 other incidents in which three or more people were shot. In just two months, such shootings claimed 90 lives and wounded more than 200 others.
[For more of this story go to http://blogs.aafp.org/cfr/lead...ions_to_gun_violence]
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