190 - Election Series: What's At Stake With Gun Policy
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
As part of our election series, guest host Dr. Colleen Barry talks with Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence about what's at stake for gun policy in this election. They also talk about how 2020 is shaping up to be a grim year for homicides and gun violence, the rise of gun sales and suicides, which gun policies garner majority support and which are more contentious, and how the pandemic's focus on public health prevention methods could impact future gun policy.
KEYWORDS: firearms; violence prevention; state government
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
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| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhhhu.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future |
| 0:47.2 | podcast episodes. Today, as part of our election series, Dr. Colleen Berry, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management, talks with Josh Horwitz, the executive director of the coalition to stop gun violence. |
| 1:02.2 | They discuss gun policy and the 2020 election and beyond. |
| 1:07.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:09.3 | Josh, welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:11.7 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm appreciative. |
| 1:14.2 | You are a national expert on gun violence prevention. |
| 1:17.7 | First, let's talk about the incredibly tumultuous last six months or so. |
| 1:22.6 | What do we know about gun purchasing and rates of gun violence since the start of the COVID pandemic in March |
| 1:29.0 | and in the context of what has been an extended period of social unrest? |
| 1:33.5 | It really has been a unique period between COVID, between the response to police violence |
| 1:39.2 | and the elections. It's been a unique period in American history. One thing that we do know |
| 1:47.4 | from the numbers is that gun sales have gone up starting in March and in continuing through the |
| 1:54.6 | latest numbers in September. And in some cases, in some of these months, gun sales have even |
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