Doctors, Nurses and Leaders Want to Restore Funding For Gun Violence Research

[SecularMotion]

Congress was asked by a group of doctors and nurses to let the US Centers for Disease Control research gun violence as a national public health concern, something that it has not done for more than two decades.

Local community leaders and gunshot victims believe that the move could lead to a notable reduction in shootings. However, the Congress refused to spend on gun research.

The pressure is now on for local and national leaders to acknowledge gun violence the same way as the public health concerns do, according to WLKY.

Between 2003 and 2010, the majority of local gunshot victims are indigent, according to a research by UofL professor Dr. Bill Smock. That means taxpayers shoulders the bills.

http://www.counselheal.com/articles/22942/20160408/doctors-nurses-leaders-restore-funding-research-gun-violence.htm

[ileus]

1. I just want to carry my pistol into the hospital.

I get tired of leaving it in the South lot every morning.

I don't even want to carry it all day long, I'd be happy to lock it in my upper left desk drawer, it stays locked all the time anyway.


I thought we already knew "guns kill people" what more do they expect to "discover" in their "research"???

[Human101948]

2. We know that cars kill people too and we still do reasearch into crashes...

and use that data to make them safer.

[GreydeeThos]

16. New technology is constantly being introduced into vehicles and roadways

How much new technology is being introduced into guns?

[stone space]

3. What is your biggest fear when visiting the hospital?

I just want to carry my pistol into the hospital.

[ileus]

4. I visit every day from 8-4:30

No fear really inside the hospital, but I don't like leaving my EDC in the car out in the south lot.

If I'm just visiting a hospital I go ahead and carry normally.

[stone space]

5. Feel free to leave the gun at home in a safe.

Problem solved!

[ileus]

6. I do leave some at home in the safe, but the EDC

travels with me, it's just part of my life safety regimen. I don't like leaving my firearm at risk of being stolen, and secondary of course is putting my life at risk while on the clock just to make some lawyer happy.

All well such is life when you're working for the man...

Safety first.

[Waldorf]

10. No thanks, I prefer to carry my M&P Shield when I'm out and about. n/t

[gejohnston]

7. research is still allowed, just not advocacy.

Doctors and nurses are not scientists and those "studies" done by doctors, like Kellermann, did not follow the scientific method including allowing for peer review.
The answer remains and should remain, do research under current rules.

[DonP]

9. Funny how they all forget that 2013 study, personally ordered by President Obama

I guess that one doesn't count, since it didn't deliver the results they wanted and the White House let it drop like a lead balloon.

[DashOneBravo]

17. +1

How often did we hear about the NRA not allowing the CDC to do a study?

Sandy Hook happens and POTUS can't get a gun control bill through a Democratic majority in the Senate.

Passes some Exectuive Orders to the CDC and everybody was chomping at the bit for it to be released.

CDC releases study and crickets or now I'm seeing the "well it wasn't a scientific study so I dismiss it and don't bring it up"

Funny how that works .

[Eleanors38]

8. "Hampered by an insufficient body of evidence:" Hard to believe given the...

...volume of documents and "research" done by foundations and the CDC up to the time the agency was restricted from promoting gun-control.

Perhaps the docs and medical people should expand their focus to include criminologists and others, lest they be accused of trying to crank out tax payer-funded political policy.

[sarisataka]

11. Doesn't Hemenway turn out

2-3 reports and studies a week. Why doesn't the medical community consider those sufficient? Could it be that they consider those reports lacking veracity?

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

12. It's just hard to believe that people resent being told how they should feel

[beevul]

13. Do you ever feel ashamed of posting these factually misleading articles?

Congress was asked by a group of doctors and nurses to let the US Centers for Disease Control research gun violence as a national public health concern, something that it has not done for more than two decades.

The above is deliberately factually misleading and you know it.

[Puha Ekapi]

14. "Deliberately factually misleading"'

You are far more diplomatic than I am . In my neck of the woods, we usually use different terminology, most often "lying out yer ass."

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

15. I'm kinda glad he continues

It's often not apparent that you into bullshit until your face is really right in it.
It might be that it's old dried out bullshit that you have to get that close to it to notice.