to dive into the gun debate by treating guns as a threat to public health much like smoking or drunk driving. here to talk u with us joey jackson and james shallek. having worked as a nightside reporter in d.c. in local tv news when this was the murder capital of the year i can think of emergency room physicians i met through the years who would love to treat this as a public health problem. joey, do you agree? i absolutely do. the statistic ticks are come pegging when you talk about gun fatalities and motor vehicle fatalities. you have just as many gun related injuries as you do motor vehicle deaths that s problematic and something for doctors to get involved. this is not something new to them. the american college of physicians addressed the issue 15 years ago when they said