David Hemenway spoke on this at last year’s annual meeting of the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

There are resources, as well as here.

Statistics as a field began squarely within the bounds of Epidemiology. Surely, this is a problem worthy of Statistics, Data Science, and Machine Learning.

Update, 2018-02-16, 09:54 ET

The Editors, Bloomberg: “The end of gun massacres begins with you”.

Update, 2018-02-19, 10:58 ET

• Harvard Injury Control Research Center, “Gun threats and self-defense gun use”
• D. Hemenway, Private Guns, Public Health
• Harvard Injury Control Research Center, Guns and violent death to children

And it can work.