When UC Davis violence researcher Dr. Garen Wintemute queried Americans on political violence, race and threats to democracy, he didn’t know exactly how scary the results would be. “We expected the findings to be concerning, but these exceed our worst expectations,” said Wintemute, a go-to source for many years on gun violence, which he witnesses firsthand as an emergency room physician in Sacramento. The report by Wintemute and his team at the Violence Prevention Research Program was released Wednesday by UC Davis. The findings were posted by medRXiv.org, a health sciences website that lists works in progress prior to peer review. Most gun-related violence in the United States involves daily assaults that don’t make headlines, but where weaponry and politics intersect, here are some of the highlights — or maybe lowlights is the better word — of what Wintemute and his research team found:

Source: Los Angeles Times July 25, 2022 19:29 UTC