Tuesday, December 15, 2015

IS GUN VIOLENCE A PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIC? YES IT IS


Did you know that there's a funding ban that keeps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from conducting research on gun violence? Well, there is. And right before the San Bernardino shootout a group of medical doctors arrived in Washington.

The group was in Washington to speak about the need to view gun violence as a "public health epidemic" that required more research to solve the problem. This what we do with other maladies and diseases that cause thousands of deaths per year in America.

As you can imagine, Republican lawmakers opposed what the medical doctors were in Washington to discuss. They won't say it in public but they're afraid that, with more information, people might learn more about guns in America, including information in the meme below ...


- Mark

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