Frustrated AMA adopts sweeping policies to cut gun violence

apnews ^ | 6/12/2018 | LINDSEY TANNER

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With frustration mounting over lawmakers’ inaction on gun control, the American Medical Association on Tuesday pressed for a ban on assault weapons and came out against arming teachers as a way to fight what it calls a public health crisis.

At its annual policymaking meeting, the nation’s largest physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand on gun violence — a problem the organizations says is as menacing as a lethal infectious disease.

The action comes against a backdrop of recurrent school shootings, everyday street violence in the nation’s inner cities, and rising U.S. suicide rates.

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Medical errors cause many more times death than guns ever will.

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These “doctors” remind me of those in the NFL that forget what their real job is and opt for activism - wouldn’t want any of them treating me....

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According to the Institute for Medicine, over 100,000 people a year die in hospitals, under a doctor’s care. Perhaps the doctors should clean up their own act before venturing into foreign terrain like politics.