This Is Very Much Our Lane: Childhood Firearm Exposure and Adult Outcomes

The recent spate of mass shootings across the United States has led the president to declare gun violence a public health epidemic.1 Among adolescents and young adults, suicide and homicide are the second- and third-leading causes of death, with approximately half of suicides and nearly 90% of homicides in this age group related to firearms.2–4 In this issue of Pediatrics , Copeland et al5 present the first published prospective study in which...