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JHU Center for Gun Policy and Research celebrates 25 years, announces plans for future
In virtual symposium, the center announces commitment to racial equity and diversity in its mission and practices, a new endowed professorship, and a name change By Saralyn Cruickshank / Published March 8, 2021
The Johns Hopkins University Center for Gun Policy and Research celebrated 25 years of conducting research and contributing evidence-based solutions to gun violence in the United States during a webcast Wednesday. Featuring a lineup of prominent local, state, and national political leaders as well as faculty from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and policy advocates, the virtual symposium served as a launchpad for the center s plans for the next 25 years and explored the challenges that lay ahead.
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Those numbers could be reduced with new laws requiring a permit and training to buy a gun, according to Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings. A gun permit law is number one on her list of legislative priorities.
“There are too many guns on our streets and it’s too easy for criminals to get them,” Jennings said. “Owning a gun is a right and it is a responsibility. That’s why it’s time to join red and blue states alike in requiring a permit and training to purchase a gun.”
She said permit laws have been shown to reduce gun homicides by 40% and suicides by 15%, a claim backed by a Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research study of Connecticut’s permit law.