So there's four spheres that interact and result in preventable deaths. We don't have to prevent them all - just preventing a lot of them would have a significant benefit. So how to address the Four Factors {guns, cars, rage, procedures}?
- Address Procedures by:
- Require training in weapons handling
- Retesting - both Q-and-A and handling - a portion of guns/cars users every X years.
- Change the posture from car-culture and gun-culture "accidents" to safety-culture "events", and publish results of event investigations.
- Conduct public awareness campaigns identifying common themes in gun and car procedural failures.
- Address Rage by:
- waiting period for gun purchases.
- background checks for gun owners.
- Address Cars by:
- reducing speeds by enforcing speed limits
- Adopting Vision Zero philosophy of: there are no cost-justified car deaths
- provide public transit as an essential public service.
- implementing autonomous vehicles
- Address Guns by:
- CDC gun-violence studies from a public health perspective.
- reduce easy availability of guns
- remove access to assault weapons
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