Recently awarded the Mystic Film Festival Human Rights Award, GSW explores a few days with some of our nation’s leading trauma surgeons as they combat our gun violence epidemic and search for solutions through hospital-based intervention programs.
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New York
Officers made 410 gun arrests in March, and 1,207 arrests for illegal firearms in the first quarter of 2022.
-NYPD
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Philadelphia
Since the beginning of the year, nearly 200 kids have been shot in Philadelphia.
-FOX 29 Philadelphia
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Baltimore
Gun violence costs Maryland $5.7 billion each year, of which $375.8 million is paid by taxpayers.
- EveryTown
“Sometimes a suture and a scalpel is a poor match for the lethality of a bullet. And sometimes we can’t fix it.”
-Dr. Sheldon Teperman
Trauma Medical Director, NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi
“When you’re in the operating room, particularly with a gunshot victim and they have a multitude of injuries, in the heat of the moment you’re doing everything you can. And even if your brain tells you it’s a non-survivable injury, your heart feels otherwise.”
-Dr. Amy J. Goldberg
Chair of Surgery, Temple University Hospital
Firearms recently became the number one cause of death for children in the United States, surpassing motor vehicle deaths and those caused by other injuries.
-The New England Journal of Medicine
“Sometimes you blame yourself…what could I have done differently? But sometimes the only thing that could have been done differently is preventing these injuries from ever happening in the first place.”
- Dr. Joseph Victor Sakran
Director of Emergency General Surgery & Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital
What People Are Saying
“Incredible film—really, really remarkable, and deserves to be seen by a lot of people…”
— Andrew Botsford
