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This is Lindsay Smith Rogers.

Today, the connection between alcohol and gun violence. I talk with Sylvia Villarreal and

Josh Horwitz of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions about a new report that looks

at alcohol as a major risk factor for gun violence. We discuss their policy recommendations,

as well as ways that individuals can consider their own safety

when it comes to alcohol and guns. Let's listen. Sylvia Villarreal and Josh Horowitz,

thank you so much for coming on Public Health on call today. Thanks for having me.

Thank you, Lindsay, for having us and for this great opportunity to share our work.

So today we're going to talk about a report that came out from the Johns Hopkins for having us and for this great opportunity to share our work.

So today we're going to talk about a report that came out from the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy about this intersection

of alcohol and firearms.

So I want to start out by asking you, Josh, to tell us about a risk-based approach to

reducing gun violence. Let's start with the broader concept here. Thanks for asking that.

It's a great question. I've been working in this field for a long time. And there's been,

and rightly so, a sort of focus on some of the hardware around firearms.

But I don't know that there's been enough attention been paid on who has access to firearms.

And so that's something, you know, about 10 years ago I started looking at after the shootings at Sandy Hook.

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