Guest Column: Securing guns can save kids’ lives
Nick Watkins, MD
Nick Watkins, MD, is a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Bertina Loui, DO
Bertina Loui, DO, is a pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital.
Opinion: Firearms became the leading cause of death of children in the United States in 2020, which alone saw an 8.8% increase compared with 2019. In the four years since, the numbers of children lost to gun violence has only continued to rise.
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