Can we curb gun violence by treating it like a disease?
by Josh Sanburn
Jun 25, 2016
2 minutes
IN 2014, A WEEK BEFORE THANKSGIVING, a 56-year-old man was shot in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. Within hours, several of his family members gathered at the crime scene, discussing retribution. They had suffered; now, they wanted others to pay for their pain.
That’s when David Gaskin showed up. He gently probed the family, asking how they were feeling and why they might retaliate. He
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