A disproportionate number of people killed by guns in the U.S. are Black. Yet simply changing the way we talk about shootings won’t stop the toll this violence takes on our communities, and especially on young Black men, argues John McWhorter. In his opinion piece for the New York Times, McWhorter calls instead for more investment in initiatives like our Save Our Streets program, which prevents shootings by sending trusted violence interrupters into the community to defuse conflicts before they escalate.