{"id":7186,"date":"2025-09-27T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/stat-letters-to-editor-gun-silencers-ents-politics-lived-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:02:21","slug":"stat-letters-to-editor-gun-silencers-ents-politics-lived-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/stat-letters-to-editor-gun-silencers-ents-politics-lived-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: STAT readers on gun silencers as public health measure, \u2018lived experience,\u2019 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Opinion: STAT readers on gun silencers as public health measure, \u2018lived experience,\u2019 and more<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>First Opinion is STAT\u2019s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes selected Letters to the Editor received in response to them. You can submit a Letter to the Editor\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/submit-a-letter-to-the-editor\/\">here<\/a>, or find the submission form at the end of any First Opinion essay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/27\/stat-letters-to-editor-gun-silencers-ents-politics-lived-experience\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Torie Bosch<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/09\/27\/stat-letters-to-editor-gun-silencers-ents-politics-lived-experience\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion: STAT readers on gun silencers as public health measure, \u2018lived experience,\u2019 and more First Opinion is STAT\u2019s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech insiders, health care workers, researchers, and others. To encourage robust, good-faith discussion about issues raised in First Opinion essays, STAT publishes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,2286],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-letters-to-the-editor","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}