Let's Call Gun Violence What It Is: A Public Health Disaster

thetyee.ca ^ | 10-7-15 | Crawford Kilian

[Zuben Elgenubi]

You've got to see this youtube Firewall video.

[smokingfrog]

how many of those homicides are justified?

I'm not sure about that. I think Gary Kleck estimated something like 10% to 15% - not counting any police shootings.

[smokingfrog]

We’re #111!

[ctdonath2]

Vaccines work.
They work by training the body to provide its own defense.
On occasion it backfires, scarring the he11 out of “anti vaxxers”, but we know their fears of rare high profile events is outweighed by the unseen prevention occurring orders of magnitude more often.

[AlaskaErik]

If a disease killed 30,000 a year in one country, you'd expect a travel warning. Not in America.

Medical malpractice kills almost 200,000 every year. Where are the medical warnings? Where is the outrage. And then, there is abortion....

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Except for the suicides, these people are victims of unconstitutional denial of their 2nd amendment right to self-defense. They have a right to have someone else pay for their birth control pills though.

[Doomonyou]

A Public Health Disaster = Gun Free Zones.

[Amendment10]

"The company recently announced that neither their drivers nor their passengers will be allowed to carry firearms."

Social Darwinism at work.