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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy declared gun violence a public health crisis Tuesday and called on the nation to address it with the same vigor used to reduce deaths and injuries from tobacco and motor vehicle crashes. The surgeon general’s advisory marked the first time the nation’s leading voice on public health — the same office that in the 1960s highlighted the lethal consequences of cigarette smoking — had issued an urgent pronouncement on deaths related to firearms. The 39-page advisory underscores the significant physical and mental toll of gun violence on communities nationwide. Overall, deaths caused by guns rose to a three-decade high in 2021, driven by increases in homicides and suicides, the advisory says. In 2022, more than half of all gun deaths were from suicide, while 40 percent of firearms deaths were homicides. Murthy said the impetus for Tuesday’s advisory stems from an increase in gun violence, especially mass shootings since 2020, which he said exact a profound toll on the nation’s mental well-being. “I want people to understand the full impact of firearm violence in our country, and I want them to see it as a public health issue,” Murthy said. “I know it’s been polarizing and I know it’s been politicized, but if we can see it as a public health issue, we can come together and implement a public health solution.” As of 2020, firearm-related injuries had become the leading cause of death for children and adolescents ages 1 to 19 in the United States. Gun-related deaths for youths exceed those from vehicular accidents, cancer and heart disease. “This isn’t just a law and order policing problem. We need a more public health approach to reducing and preventing gun violence,” said Alexander McCourt, who researches gun laws at the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Gun violence deaths are a uniquely American phenomenon — and an issue that medical groups and public health advocates have sought to address, often with limited success. In 2015, data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization showed that the United States had a firearm-related death rate 11.4 times higher than 28 other high-income nations. Despite growing public sentiment favoring stronger firearm laws, gun groups, including the National Rifle Association, have long opposed stricter gun measures. “This is an extension of the Biden Administration’s war on law-abiding gun owners. America has a crime problem caused by criminals,” Randy Kozuch, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement. “The reluctance to prosecute and punish criminals on the part of President Biden and many of his allies is the primary cause of that. That’s a simple fact.” The report also highlights the effect of mass shooting deaths, which account for about 1 percent of all gun-related deaths, but the frequency of mass shooting incidents is increasing.
U.S. surgeon general declares firearm violence a public health crisis
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Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
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The Problem Isn't Guns LOL By Alexandra Petri The end of the day, it’s, the problem is the human heart. It’s not guns. It’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves, and that’s the Second Amendment.” — House Speaker Mike Johnson, asked by Fox News’s Sean Hannity about demands for more gun laws or more legislation in the wake of mass shootings Human hearts! That is the problem! In America, we are uniquely badly positioned because of our human hearts. Why don’t we have stone hearts like the French; or efficient, wood-burning hearts like the Germans; or the Teflon hearts that I hear Elon Musk will soon be pioneering to an elite crowd of subscribers? Why don’t we have alien hearts with extra ventricles, splendidly green and impervious to pain; or efficient, 3D-printed e-hearts; or anatomically inaccurate paper hearts? So many better kinds of hearts to have! It isn’t the guns. Put it up against a gun, and it loses every time. The problem is the human heart. Gun violence is an unchangeable, immutable fact of the human condition. That is why it is localized so strongly to this country and this time period. This is not a problem with a solution. It is the price you pay for being human. This is not unique to the United States, although you see it only here. Maybe it’s something to do with the water. Not laws, though; as we know from our efforts to impose vicious lawsuits and increasingly draconian restrictions against anyone who seeks an abortion, it is pointless to legislate about a problem. Some things, you are just born with and must accept; guns are one of them. The heart is a uniquely American problem. Johnson, I hear, had his removed long ago, which allows him to look on the suffering Some people’s hearts are simply bad (learned too much Darwinism, or too little prayer, or too much bodily autonomy). Johnson has been saying things of this kind for as long as he has been in the public eye. The problem is never guns. The problem is abortions. (“When you break up the nuclear family, when you tell a generation of people that life has no value, no meaning, then you do wind up with school shooters.”) The problem is not guns; it is teaching evolution. It is the theories of Charles Darwin! “Because we’ve taught a whole generation — a couple of generations now — of Americans, that there’s no right or wrong, that it’s about survival of the fittest, and [that] you evolve from the primordial slime. Why is that life of any sacred value? Because there’s nobody sacred to whom it’s owed.” Imagine thinking that the only reason to protect the human heart was allegiance to your God! The valiant little muscle clenching inside your chest, keeping you alive, powering your moves through the world, letting you see birthdays and graduations and beating faster when you see something you love — what could be more obviously worth protecting? (Guns.) ©️Washington Post 2023
Opinion | ‘The problem is the human heart. It’s not guns.’
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I love this job and certainly love what it does and all it represents. However, it is a "sad" necessity....that's getting worse. That is what fuels my passion for what we do. We have a solution...is it going to stop every threat every time...nope, nothing will. But it gives you the edge to save lives in critical seconds that matter, the alternative? Sit back and do nothing, and that is not an option. #noexcuses #endgunviolence #saferschools #safeworkspace
The U.S. Surgeon General has declared #GunViolence a public health crisis: https://hubs.ly/Q02GqzZK0 "We don’t have to continue down this path, and we don't have to subject our children to the ongoing horror of firearm violence in America. All Americans deserve to live their lives free from firearm violence, as well as from the fear and devastation that it brings. It will take the collective commitment of our nation to turn the tide on firearm violence," Dr. Vivek Murthy said. We couldn't agree more. That's why we created Omnilert Gun Detect...to help prevent gun violence and potentially save lives. Contact us today to learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q02GpyP00
US Surgeon General Murthy declares gun violence 'public health crisis' in America
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A recent NPR report highlights a sobering reality: firearms are used in only 5-6% of all suicide attempts but result in death 90% of the time–the most lethal means of suicide. This stark statistic underscores the critical need for immediate action to prevent impulsive decisions that lead to irreversible consequences. Firearm suicides account for more than half of all suicides in the United States annually. https://lnkd.in/g9-GtzUg
Suicides make up majority of gun deaths, but remain overlooked in gun violence debate
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The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reported a study by Johns Hopkins Medicine in Maryland calculated the costs of gun violence in the USA to be US$2.8 billion per year. This does not include the more intangible of economic productivity losses and mental stresses. For a fraction of the cost, having citizens being educated on civility to minimize such tragedies would seem a "no brainer", wouldn't it? https://lnkd.in/gv84RU2s (i.e. AAMC dot org /news/cost-surviving-gun-violence-who-pays) #SoftSkillsTraining #ProfessionalImage #BusinessEtiquette #CorporateCommunications #DiningEtiquette #SoftSkillsStandard #IITTI #WorldCivilityIndex #CSR #ESG #ESGreporting #Sustainability #HumanCapital #DiversityEquityInclusion #DEI
The cost of surviving gun violence: Who pays?
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#FaceOfCorruptSoul This comes from generations of rationalizing institutional theft and enslavement of people to acquire wealth. When Ancestors confronted on this they started War of Secession #CivilWar. And when they lost didn’t abide by law, cheated didn’t give what was owed in fairness and found ways out including changing laws to take and steal the best for themselves. They didn’t build the plantations they’re so proud of nor the lovely gardens or pathways attached. #AR15_Rifles were invented and manufactured for war in Particular the Vietnam War. It was not made to hunt animals it is meant to kill men in combat. In particular to turn a man’s flesh into #HAMBURGER_Meat. #IdiotSpeakerofHouseMikeJohnson knows this because #AR15 is chosen gun of choice according to #JoeScarborough of MSNBC for those #AmericanFascists who think they can use #AR15s against our own police if they knock on their door. He’s the face White Supremacists Americans that think only white people should be here. The Americans who don’t want their children to learn facts in school about the Holocaust or a Woman’s right to her own autonomy. And there is the Blood Money that the Republican National Committee takes from the National Rifle Association and that is who #MikeJohnson prays for and is loyal to. Then there are women like #SenatorSusanCollins of Maine who STILL won’t condemn or help to change gun laws because SHE IS NOT AN AUTONOMOUS WOMAN. Has ALWAYS voted like a good little girl just the way the Republican Men told her to vote. Dead children in her state. Bodies barely cold and she’s still touting the party line for that #GunMoney to keep her in 174,000 plus a year salary. Compare that to average income in the state of State of Maine #WakeupPeopleRepublicansDontCareAboutYou
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Safety culture, morale, work ethic: can be cultivated by the organization. Positive attitude: up to each individual.
More laws only punishes the people that follow the law. Violent criminals are the problem, and if you think more laws will stop them just remember: heroin is illegal and 50k die every year from it in the US; murder is illegal (and even punishable by death in some jurisdictions) and 25k die every year (about 19k from firearms, 90% of those firearms obtained illegally and the vast majority of perpetrators are suspected repeat offenders- we cannot be certain because barely more than 50% of these murders are successfully investigated/ prosecuted). Catch the violent criminals, crime rates decrease (and working through low income families living in high crime areas where fathers are often in prison or dead towards viable alternatives for youth directing them away from crime could be a great benefit- which does not have to be a government program).
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s declaration that “gun violence” is a “public health crisis” is nothing short of election-year politicking masquerading in a white lab coat. This is the very reason that NSSF opposed his nomination and confirmation three years ago. Surgeon General Murthy’s bias toward gun control was evident when he previously served as the U.S. Surgeon General under President Barack Obama. Now it’s conveniently re-emerging just days before the first presidential debate and weeks before early voting opens for the Nov. 5 presidential election. “Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on firearm violence,” Surgeon General Murthy said in a video announcement. “It outlines the urgent threat firearm violence poses to the health and well-being of our country.” Read the NSSF article by Joe Bartozzi. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gERuw9gu #gunpolicy #PublicHealthAdvisory #SurgeonGeneralVivekMurthy
Surgeon General's ‘Public Health Crisis' is Election Year Prescription
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A recent NPR report highlights a sobering reality: firearms are used in only 5-6% of all suicide attempts but result in death 90% of the time–the most lethal means of suicide. This stark statistic underscores the critical need for immediate action to prevent impulsive decisions that lead to irreversible consequences. Firearm suicides account for more than half of all suicides in the United States annually. https://lnkd.in/ex_UfRp9
Suicides make up majority of gun deaths, but remain overlooked in gun violence debate
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Lawmakers elected to office next week will likely take up firearm legislation in the next General Assembly session. Democrats rate gun policy as the No. 2 top issue, behind abortion, according to a mid-October Christopher Newport University survey of likely voters. Independents rank gun policy as the fourth top issue of concern. Gun policy ranks lowest among Republicans, but comes in above health care and “other.” Several polls have indicated that control of the General Assembly is truly up for grabs, with voters pretty split on who they want in charge. Gun policy mostly hit a stalemate the past two years, with power of the statehouse divided between Democrats in the Senate and Republicans in the House. Each party proposed legislation in alignment with party views, which was eventually shot down by each respective chamber. Details: https://lnkd.in/e_hhwPxg
Upcoming Virginia election could shape future gun policy - The Henrico Citizen
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