A Blueprint for Reducing Gun Violence by 2040, According to Experts

A mural in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. A summit in the city this year focused on evidence-based approaches to address gun-related harms. Photo by Eddie Quinones for The Trace



The JAMA Summit on Firearm Violence convened 60 thought leaders from a wide array of disciplines to discuss ideas for preventing shooting deaths and injuries.

By Fairriona Magee Nov 5, 2025

Shootings have killed more than 800,000 people and injured over 2 million others in the United States since the start of this century. In March, dozens of violence prevention leaders convened in Chicago at the JAMA Summit on Reducing Firearm Violence and Harms to discuss steps to reduce gun violence, according to a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The report, published on November 3, shows that the 60 leaders who attended the summit represented multiple disciplines. They included emergency physicians, public health scholars, psychiatrists, historians, and social workers. The summit was the first of its kind presented by the medical journal. Its purpose: to develop a roadmap for substantially curtailing the number of shooting deaths and injuries over the next 15 years.

“We’ve gained a lot of knowledge and can point to a variety of things that seem to reduce gun violence, but still, there’s a lot we don’t know, and there’s still a lot of challenges,” said Daniel Webster, a public health scholar at Johns Hopkins University who has studied gun violence for over 30 years.
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