Great column. (I found it through Active Response Training.) I am an emergency physician and have worked most of my career in the rural South/Appalachia. Shootings occur, of course, but are not common. Especially considering the number of firearms owned, or even in the vehicles in the hospital parking lot. I'd love to see some commentary from you on the recent talking points from the Surgeon General's report on gun violence. Thanks!
If our national gun homicide rate was even 50% of our traffic crash fatality rate, there would be NO guns in the US.
The carnage on our streets/highways is a nationwide disgrace. Let's tell our pols and the Media to leave our guns alone and concentrate upon making our streets/highways safer.
If the general public were as familiar with firearms as they are with automobiles, no prohibition legislation would be considered for the same reason it isn't attempted with cars.
Great column. (I found it through Active Response Training.) I am an emergency physician and have worked most of my career in the rural South/Appalachia. Shootings occur, of course, but are not common. Especially considering the number of firearms owned, or even in the vehicles in the hospital parking lot. I'd love to see some commentary from you on the recent talking points from the Surgeon General's report on gun violence. Thanks!
Thanks for reading! These video segments of the Surgeon General with Jon Stewart sum up my take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RmLyqIWkjo
Given recent reports of crime rates in the U.S., the Surgeon General's proclimation is tone deaf.
If our national gun homicide rate was even 50% of our traffic crash fatality rate, there would be NO guns in the US.
The carnage on our streets/highways is a nationwide disgrace. Let's tell our pols and the Media to leave our guns alone and concentrate upon making our streets/highways safer.
If the general public were as familiar with firearms as they are with automobiles, no prohibition legislation would be considered for the same reason it isn't attempted with cars.