A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention

A gun violence 'action plan' calls for a new emphasis on prevention

Rhitu Chatterjee

November 03, 2025 / 2:22 pm

In the past 25 years, the U.S. has seen more than 800,000 deaths from gun violence, and another 2 million or more injuries. A new report offers a roadmap to reduce the human toll of this crisis by 2040.

Sixty leading experts from a range of fields, including medicine, public health, criminology, law and the technology sector, convened earlier this year to create an action plan to address the problem. The report was published in JAMA on Monday .

"For too long, I think we've treated this as inevitable," says Dr. Joseph Sakran , a co-author of the study, trauma surgeon and executive vice chair of surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Gun violence is now the leading cause