At a recent Senate hearing on gun violence, the University of Chicago Medicine’s Chief of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., MD, MPH told lawmakers that gun violence is a public health crisis that needs to be treated with the same urgency as COVID-19 and that attention should be focused on people who are likely to use guns, especially those in distressed communities.
Rogers was among eight speakers in the first of a series of congressional hearings led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) called, “Constitutional and Common Sense Steps to Reduce Gun Violence.” It comes on the heels of three mass shootings in the U.S. in March, at a Missouri gas station, three spas in Georgia and a Colorado grocery store.
