Gun violence as a public health crisis explored by U.S. Senate Democrats

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Senate Democrats say gun violence is a public health crisis

WASHINGTON (GA Recorder) — U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Tuesday discussed how to treat gun violence as a public health crisis in hopes of building upon last year’s federal gun safety legislation. “Across the country, gun violence is a public health epidemic,” Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, the chairman of the committee, said in his opening remarks. Senate Republicans pushed back against framing gun violence as a public health cri…