🤝Two strategies for reducing gun violence
Good morning! ☀️ Today’s question: How many school shootings have taken place in 2022? NewsPolicies on gun violenceLast Tuesday, a shooter opened fire in a K-12 school, killing 19 children and 2 teachers. The shooting has led to vigorous debates about policies around gun control. We’ve all been flooded with information about this tragedy already. Here, instead, we will discuss what can help us to decrease school shootings, and mass shootings in general. First and foremost, we must understand that gun violence appears to be increasing amount young people. And although gun deaths in certain other countries such as El Salvador and Venezuela are much higher, among countries with low gun deaths the United States gun violence rate is shocking. But let’s not just focus on countries that have extremely low rates of gun violence. How does the United States compare to other countries with developed economies in general? Again, the United States is the odd one out. How can we prevent or reduce mass shootings and gun violence? There have been some studies on this. Daniel Webster, co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, and colleagues “analyzed more than 30 years of data on shootings in the U.S. that involved four or more victims” and found that two policies were effective in reducing gun violence:
On the other end, his research showed that background checks or policies that make it easier for people to carry guns do not seem to be effective. Other social work-related news
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In more technical terms, transferring feces from one person to another for medical reasons is termed Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT). Currently, it is used as a treatment for C. difficile colitis, a recurrent bacterial infection, and nothing else. The cure rate is around 90 percent. Yet FTM is a growing area of research that shows promise in treating other conditions, including ones related to mental health. For example, a 2016 journal article which studied the relationship between gut microbes and depression found that the “absence of gut microbiota induces depression-like behavior in mice and that the composition of gun microbiota is significantly altered in Major Depressive Disoorder patients [when compared to] healthy individuals.” Despite these promising results, much more research is needed to truly understand the relationship between mental health and our gut’s microbes. Other reads on research
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