Paul Manganiello: Gun violence is a public health issue

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Paul Manganiello, MD MPH, of Norwich, a emeritus professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Recently we were again forced to confront another mass shooting, defined by Mass Shooting Tracker as four or more individuals shot. Mass Shooting Tracker, which is featured by a number of news outlets including the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN and the Economist, estimates that from January through October 201