As National Gun Violence Survivor’s Awareness Week 2023 comes to a close today, sadly the trauma doesn’t end. Learn more about how to reduce trauma in survivors, victims and witnesses; coping with mass shootings; understanding gun violence and more. Dr. Susan B. Sorenson Professor and Senior Fellow in Public Health at the University of Pennsylvania states, “Shootings, even when no one is injured, reverberate throughout a community, increasing fear and mistrust, which motivate more people to obtain guns,” Dr. Sorenson says. “It’s a loop we need to break.”