Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Researchers from Washington University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Saint Louis University are teaming up in an effort to reduce gun violence.
KMOV-TV (http://bit.ly/1He1U7H ) reports that the partnership plans to approach gun violence as a public health crisis, similar to tobacco use or safe-driving concerns.
The goal of the initiative is to better understand the issue of gun violence and to raise awareness, along with exploring ways to help policymakers and the public make decisions to curb the problem.
Gun violence has been a particular problem in St. Louis since early 2014. The city's murder rate rose last year, at a time when killings in many other cities were on the decline.
___
Information from: KMOV-TV, http://www.kmov.com
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
