Firearm Injury Prevention Is Not Gun Control

Firearm Injury Prevention Is Not Gun Control: A conversation with Dr. Megan Ranney. From mandatory seatbelts to effective anti-drug use campaigns, we've long used evidence-based approaches to make people safer--without infringing on their rights. Despite the near absence of federal funding for firearm safety research, Megan Ranney wants to bring science to bear on the issue of gun safety, bridging the gap between gun control and Second Amendment concerns. Ranney is a professor of emergency medicine at Alpert Medical School and chief research officer of AFFIRM [https://affirmresearch.org/about/] Theme music composed by Henry Ross Bloomfield: [http://www.heybloomfield.com/] You can read a transcript of this episode here: [https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/podcast/trending-globally/transcripts/E58_Megan%20Ranney_mixdown_2.pdf]