Can the US Gain Ground on Mass Shootings and Gun Violence?

Was Live Friday, Dec 19, 2025 | 11am PST

Guest Speakers

• Dr. Ragy Girgis, Director, The Center of Prevention and Evaluation (COPE) at Columbia University
• Sarah Lerner, Co-founder of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence
• Dr. Daniel Webster, Bloomberg Professor of American Health, Johns Hopkins University

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Event Overview

Mass shootings and gun violence have become a grim and recurring feature of life in the United States. Even as the number of mass shootings have declined to their lowest levels in 2 decades, the US still has the highest number of gun-related deaths than any of its peer nations. Yet despite national outrage that follows every mass shooting, policy responses remain uneven and polarized, constrained by constitutional debates and American gun culture.

Speakers this week will discuss the factors behind mass shootings, necessary policy interventions at the federal level, and successful community initiatives at the local level, including Baltimore and New York.

Presented by ACoM

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