Here We Go: Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence an 'Epidemic', Recommends Ban on 'Assault Weapons'
http://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/06/25/surgeon-general-declares-gun-violence-an-epidemic-n2397642
ABC News (@ABC) ~ The U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, issued a new advisory on Tuesday declaring gun violence a public health crisis.
Read more: http://trib.al/LygPfha
A couple of things:
First -- when are 19-year-olds considered 'kids'? Only for the purpose of gun violence. If it was a 19-year-old seeking a gender reassignment procedure, he'd be an adult who can make his own choices.
Second -- notice the one suggestion the report doesn't make is prosecuting those who commit gun crimes and putting them in prison.
Rob Nichols (@robby14092) ~ Still no accountability for the person that obtains the gun and pulls the trigger.
See? We're not the only one who noticed that.
Perhaps gun violence would decrease if criminals knew they'd spend the rest of their lives behind bars.
Tha Truth (@ThaTr_th) ~ {Replying to @ABC} How can you declare a health crisis when the NIH (National Institute of Health) hasn’t don’t a study on gun violence since 1996?
It's a purely political move in an election year.
AdamInHTownTX (Not a Neurologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) ~ (Replying to @Surgeon_General} 18 and 19 year olds aren't children. Stop making up fake statistics to push a gun-grabbing political agenda.
They fudge the numbers to get the results they want.
Joe Currin (@joe_currin) ~ {Replying to @Surgeon_General} Change the age range from 1-18 and magically your statistics show gun deaths plummet. 19-year-olds aren’t children.
Magically plummet.
TWEETO BANDITO (@DjptrsnMana) ~ Ironically, the violence sky rockets after the “Hands up don’t shoot” hoax. Accountability was removed from the toolbox.
Yes it was.
Cashless bail. 'Restorative justice'. A revolving-door criminal system.
Of course, the Second Amendment still exists -- regardless of whether or not the Surgeon General declares gun violence an 'epidemic'. But COVID set the precedent that once something is a 'public emergency', the government can do whatever it wants -- rights of the people be damned.
So don't be surprised if nothing good comes out of the Biden administration over this. And expect a prolonged battle in the courts (again) to defend our rights against those who would strip us of them to pursue their political agenda.
Daxton Brown (@daxtonbrown) ~ {Replying to @Surgeon_General} I look forward to seeing you go door to door trying to confiscate 400 million guns.
Yep. Good luck with that, champ.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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