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N.J. bills aim to stem gun violence through hospital trauma programs [pressofatlanticcity.com]

 

Lawmakers are putting more focus on efforts to stem gun violence and ensuing trauma in New Jersey communities with a series of bills they introduced in the legislature earlier this month.

The bills focus on gun violence by engaging patients in the hospital, during their recovery and in the community following a firearm incident, putting attention on mental health and counseling needs of gun violence victims.

“Each day, too many families in New Jersey wake up expecting to hear the sound of gunfire and live with the constant fear of losing a loved one,” Mike McLively, director of the Urban Gun Violence Initiative at Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement.

[For more on this story by NICOLE LEONARD, go to https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/nj-bills-aim-to-stem-gun-violence-through-hospital-trauma/article_ff75145a-f043-513f-bb31-92550296608a.html]

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