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Thursday on Political Rewind: Polling shows Americans want lawmakers to take action to curb a shocking rate of gun violence in our country. But efforts to address the crisis have been ineffective.\n\nDecades ago, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began promoting a public health approach, making the case that violence is something we can understand and prevent if we base our response on science and\xa0focus our efforts on prevention.\n\nThe social and economic factors at play are crucial to consider, too, Atlanta Journal-Constitution managing editor\xa0Leroy Chapman\xa0said.\xa0\n\n"There are a lot of African\xa0Americans here who can talk about this issue in a way that is personal, that ... this is not something we're going to arrest our way out of," Chapman said.\xa0"This is a problem that has to do with many things: health care, generational poverty, all the things that are the underlying causes of this."\n\nSo\xa0what if lawmakers started to address\xa0gun violence as a public health crisis? In a recent opinion column, three public health leaders advocated for just that approach,\xa0urging\xa0that data-driven, epidemiological measures be employed against the plague of gun violence.\n\nWe spoke\xa0with a few influential public health leaders pushing for a change in strategy.\n\nPanelists:\n\nDr. David Satcher\xa0\u2014\xa0Former U.S. Surgeon General and former director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\n\nDr. Mark Rosenberg \u2014 Former director, Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the CDC\n\nKathryn Lawler\xa0\u2014\xa0Executive director, ARCHI\n\nLeroy Chapman\xa0\u2014\xa0Managing editor, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution