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Here’s an excerpt from that article.

“But according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, homicide, suicide, and accidents are among the top three causes of death for Americans ages 0-54, and these deaths often involve firearms-over 30,000 per year. That’s seven times as many as die of cervical cancer, and nearly as many as die from pancreatic cancer annually.”

Notice the wording. “often” They don’t specify the percentage. They throw in “accidents” (which are going to include car accidents, a top killer) to beef up the numbers and then try to scare people with those numbers. This is beyond disingenuous. This is flat out lying.

They could say these deaths often involve bathtubs, since some people drown in bathtubs each year. But they aren’t trying to ban bathtubs.

We need to redesign the medical system so that doctors and insurance companies do NOT maintain our medical records.

[Ron H.]

"But according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control, homicide, suicide, and accidents are among the top three causes of death for Americans ages 0-54, and these deaths often involve firearms-over 30,000 per year. That’s seven times as many as die of cervical cancer, and nearly as many as die from pancreatic cancer annually."

Notice the wording. “often” They don’t specify the percentage. They throw in “accidents” (which are going to include car accidents, a top killer) to beef up the numbers and then try to scare people with those numbers. This is beyond disingenuous. This is flat out lying.

A little perspective. Just did a quick Google of reported automobile related deaths annually in the US "Motor Vehicle--Related Death Rates --- United States, 1999--2005" as reported by the CDC, total 311,356. Perhaps we need to better regulate who can drive a motor vehicle, possibly have doctors ask their patients and their 5 year old's if they or anyone in their family drives a (much more deadly) motorized vehicle and take away their privilege of driving on the nations hiways and biways?! But possibly that's not the (nefarious) goal here!   </ >

[KeyLargo]

Help returning veterans find place in the workforce

Experts weigh in on stereotypes, strengths of service members returning from overseas
July 02, 2012|Ask Rex Huppke: I Just Work Here

Harry Croft is a Texas-based psychiatrist, an expert inpost-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and a veteran. He also is co-author the book “I Always Sit With My Back to the Wall: Managing Traumatic Stress and Combat PTSD” and has worked with more than 7,000 veterans over 14 years.

Croft said about 20 percent of the soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq will suffer some degree of PTSD, which can range from mild to debilitating. So it’s critical for both sides to fully understand the disorder.

“I started giving lectures on what PTSD is, and I started getting questions from people, people at the managerial level, who would say, ‘We want to hire these veterans, but we can’t ask if they have PTSD,’” Croft said. “Some of the questions were just staggering. HR people said things like, ‘We’re worried that violence could erupt in the workplace or whether other employees could catch PTSD.’”

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-02/features/ct-biz-0702-work-advice-huppke-20120702_1_ptsd-veterans-iraq-and-afghanistan