Gunfire has taken a toll nationwide over the past Fourth of July holiday week. From mass shootings in Baltimore and Philadelphia, to a shooting in Hayward in the Bay Area, the terror and trauma have many Americans calling again for action.
East Bay trauma centers see spike in gun injuries, as Congress members call for Surgeon General to issue report
"It's a public health issue. We've had gun violence everywhere even at my work," said Jordan Coleman, an"You can hear the shots sometimes," said Juan Aceves, who says his family moved to a downtown Oakland home last year, "It has been progressively worse, violence...now the gunshots here. We live in an apartment where it happened."
The letter to Secretary Xavier Beccerra and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy last week, led by Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Senator Cory Booker said gun violence has become a public health crisis that needs to be addressed as an epidemic. Bay Area Representatives Mark DeSaulnier, Zoe Lofgren, Kevin Mullin, Eric Swalwell, and Mike Thompson also signed the letter.
"What we see is not only is there the immediate violence to the individual, but there is the repercussions of the violence that impact our community," said Jackson, "They're sons, they're daughters, they're mothers, they're fathers. And so it's important to me and to this organization to treat them as humans to treat them as individuals and never reduce them to just statistics.
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