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From Trump's rally to Hartford's Asylum Hill, tackling gun violence as a public health crisis

By Tess Terrible,
Sujata Srinivasan
Published July 16, 2024 at 6:00 AM EDT
FILE, 2023: Rev. Sam Saylor, Se'Cret Pierce's grandfather, struggled to speak during a vigil on Huntington Street in Hartford where 12 year-old Pierce was killed in a drive by shooting. "No one plans for the death of a twelve year old," he said.
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FILE, 2023: Rev. Sam Saylor, Se'Cret Pierce's grandfather, struggled to speak during a vigil on Huntington Street in Hartford where 12 year-old Pierce was killed in a drive by shooting. "No one plans for the death of a twelve year old," he said.
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Mark Barden, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund sits with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Senior Health Reporter, Sujata Srinivasan to discuss gun violence as a public health crisis.
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Mark Barden, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund sits with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Senior Health Reporter, Sujata Srinivasan to discuss gun violence as a public health crisis.
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Reverend Sam Saylor, who lost his son Shane Oliver to gun violence in October 2012 sits with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's Senior Health Reporter Sujata Srinivasan to discuss gun violence as a public health crisis.
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Reverend Sam Saylor, who lost his son Shane Oliver to gun violence in October 2012 sits with ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's Senior Health Reporter Sujata Srinivasan to discuss gun violence as a public health crisis.
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Today, we talk about gun violence as a public health crisis. The divide on how to respond to gun violence is deeply polarizing. But seeing it through a public lens perspective could change the conversation. And it can also bring new solutions.

Surviving parents of gun violence victims join us and we also hear from

Mark Barden is the He lost his son Daniel in the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. We hear from him.

Reverend Sam Saylor lost his son Shane Oliver to gun violence in October 2012. In April 2023, Shane’s daughter and Reverend Saylor’s granddaughter, . She was only 12 years old. He joins us as well.

Mark Barden, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund.
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Mark Barden, Co-Founder and CEO of Sandy Hook Promise Action Fund.

GUESTS:

  • Dr. James Dodington: Medical Director at the Center for Injury and Violence Prevention and Associate Professor of Yale School of Medicine
  • Mark Barden: co-founder and co-CEO of Sandy Hook Promise
  • Reverend Sam Saylor: community activist

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Tess Terrible
Tess is a senior producer for ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø news-talk show Where We Live. She enjoys hiking ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø's many trails and little peaks, knitting, gardening and writing in her seven journals.
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Sujata Srinivasan
Sujata Srinivasan is ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Radio’s senior health reporter. Prior to that, she was a senior producer for Where We Live, a newsroom editor, and from 2010-2014, a business reporter for the station.
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