TY - JOUR T1 - Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma firearm injury prevention statement JF - Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open JO - TSACO DO - 10.1136/tsaco-2018-000294 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - e000294 AU - Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma Y1 - 2019/02/01 UR - http://tsaco.bmj.com/content/4/1/e000294.abstract N2 - Firearm violence is a public health crisis of epidemic proportions. Over 30 000 Americans die from gunshot wounds every year, and countless others are injured.Surgeons and trauma care providers are a diverse group, encompassing a wide range of ages, all sexes, all races and ethnicities, and differing political beliefs. At the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST), we feel that our current efforts to reduce firearm-related injuries and violence are insufficient. EAST believes that saving individual lives without addressing the underpinnings of violence and the obvious vector, firearms, is contributing to the ongoing suffering.Therefore, as an organization of providers who care … ER -