The shooter in the mass gun shooting in Orlando early Sunday morning, which killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens of others, was initially characterized as a “lone gunman.” But for those of us in public health, who have seen the deadly merger of access to weapons and senseless hate play out again and again, with no government action to stop it, the gunman, Omar Saddiqui Mateen, was by no means alone. He was aided and abetted by our inertia.
Read full article in BU Today. A version of this appeared in The Boston Globe.