U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis
U.S. surgeon general declares gun violence a public health crisis
The advisory issued by Dr. Vivek Murthy came as the U.S. grappled with another summer weekend marked by deadly mass shootings.
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I mean, I follow the logic but this still doesn’t feel right.
It feels right to me. People are being injured, maimed, permanently disabled, and killed. All by a particular piece of readily available technology. When we can point to the single thing that causes all those individual health emergencies, and it’s consistently happening across the country on a daily basis to many many people, in public spaces that are otherwise quite safe, that’s most definitely a public health crisis.
Additionally, all the mental health impacts. Our children are afraid to go to school, a place they are legally bound to be, because of gun violence.
Thanks
It's so bad even toddlers are killing people with them.
Well put
If you look at gun violence the way you look at disease I'm sure there are correllaries. Cycles of one person inflicting pain on a group, and that group transmitting that pain back onto a different group.
I don't see the US Surgeon General as the correct person to make meaningful changes to curve gun violence.
I do see this as the perfect story for right-wing pundits to turn this into a "the military is gonna take your guns" dog whistle.