; Whereas, in 2016, the American Medical Association adopted its policy calling gun violence in the United States a public health crisis requiring a comprehensive public health response and solution; Whereas, in 2016, the American Medical Association President noted that with [tens of thousands of] men, women and children dying each year at the barrel of a gun in elementary schools, movie theaters, workplaces, houses of worship and on live television, the United States faces a public health crisis of gun violence ; Whereas, in 2018, the American College of Physicians issued a position paper detailing how firearm violence continues to be a public health crisis that requires the nation’s immediate attention ; Whereas, in 2019, a study by Florida Atlantic University’s Schmidt College of Medicine found that more United States school-age children die from guns than on-duty United States police or global military fatalities; Whereas the American Public Health Association finds that gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the United States; Whereas, in 2019, Black children and teens had the highest gun death rate, followed by American Indian and Alaska Native children and teens; Whereas, in 2020, guns became the leading cause of death for children in the United States, a trend which has continued in all years that have followed; Whereas, in 2021, the Governor of New York declared gun violence a public health emergency; Whereas, in 2021, the mayor of Washington, DC, declared gun violence to be a public health crisis and announced a whole-of-government approach to combating this crisis; Whereas, in 2021, the Governor of Illinois declared gun violence a public health crisis; Whereas, in 2022, 6,171 children aged 0 to 17 were injured or died as a result of gun violence; Whereas, in January 2022, city officials in Cincinnati, Ohio, declared gun violence a public health crisis; Whereas, in February 2022, the mayor of Columbus, Ohio, declared gun violence a public health crisis