On our minds at Healthline today are the people in Uvalde, Texas. We’re thinking about the children and teachers who never got to celebrate their last days of school before summer vacation. The mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and friends mourning their loss. Every parent who sent their kids to school this week; every teacher who put on a brave face for their students.

And the families in Buffalo, New York, and Laguna Woods, California, who haven’t been able to process their own immeasurable grief before yet another tragedy brought a new community to its knees.

Gun violence is a public health crisis in the U.S. It’s time we start treating it like one. We spoke with health experts to shed light on how we move forward.