With future of gun research in question, new report finds US emergency departments see a firearm injury every 30 minutes

Flavius Niculescu

CNN  —  When Dr. Christina Johns, a pediatric emergency medicine physician, thinks about her time working at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, one case always comes rushing back: Two-year-old. Gunshot wound. Chest. ETA five minutes. The child was rushed to the emergency department after being accidentally shot by an older sibling who was playing with a gun that was left unlocked in the house. “I’ll never forget the … child on the stretcher and the blood-curdling screams of the parent

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