ABA President Paulette Brown will join with public health, medical and legal experts and faith leaders for a Dec. 4 conference, “Moving from Crisis to Action: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence.”
The daylong program, cosponsored by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Gun Violence and eight national health care organizations, will be held at
the Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., where nine persons were shot to death during a June prayer meeting.
Brown will provide opening remarks at the conference about strategies for reducing gun violence that do not conflict with the Second Amendment right to own and bear arms.
“For nearly 50 years, the American Bar Association has acknowledged the devastation caused by gun violence and expressed strong support for enacting meaningful reforms that do not infringe on Second Amendment rights as interpreted by the Supreme Court and lower courts,” Brown said.
The keynote address will be presented by Daniel Webster, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the topic of “Facing the Facts: How Gun Violence is Shaping Life in America.
Panel discussions will focus on:
• How gun violence is shaping life in America
• Race and guns
• A risk-based approach to reducing gun violence
• Ways to increase understanding of gun dangers
• The Second Amendment and legal strategies to reduce gun violence
• The role of the faith community
• The role of legislators and other public officials in reducing gun violence.
The conference will conclude with a closing service at Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
“The Charleston community wants to reduce gun violence utilizing a public health approach in analyzing and dealing with gun violence, which has yielded significant results,” said David Clark, chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Gun Violence.
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