[Neighbors] The AMA calls for enabling research into gun violence

[Jack Hinton via Neighbors_nobhill-nm]

Taking my rights away because of the actions of some idiots, doesn't help.  Those thugs were breaking the law, which apparently doesn't matter.  Had they threatened me with a gun, I would have shot them.



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> On Jun 15, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Judith Rapping <altrapp747 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Good lord. Enough, Jack.. It's a perfectly legitimate posting by Zachary. We are all threatened by guns.  My grandson was accosted on his longboard just south of Central yesterday by a car load of thugs, one of whom raised his shirt to show him he was "carrying" a gun.  This is MY FAMILY NEIGHBORHOOD, TOO.
> 
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 6:18 AM, Allyn via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>> President Obama's Surgeon General is using the AMA as a back door means to grab guns.  There is no need to bring this political issue into our neighborhood e-mail nor bother Pat Davis with this.  I'm not sure what the point of this e-mail is.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jack
>> 
>> From: "Zachary Benz via Neighbors_nobhill-nm" <neighbors_nobhill-nm at mailman.swcp.com>
>> To: "Pat Davis" <patdavis at cabq.gov>, neighbors at nobhill-nm.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 8:43:41 PM
>> Subject: [Neighbors] The AMA calls for enabling research into gun violence
>> 
>> 
>> Pat, Neighbors,
>> 
>> I can appreciate that there are many opinions out there on gun rights and on the causes of gun violence.  It would seem to me that the American Medical Association's call for allowing government researchers to be allowed to study the causes of gun violence is highly sensible, and could be supported by many across the political spectrum. Currently the federal government is forbidden from funding research into gun violence, leaving us all to lean on anecdote and our own necessarily limited individual experiences rather than shared deep insight. 
>> 
>> The AMA put out the following statement today:
>> 
>> "With approximately 30,000 men, women and children dying each year at the barrel of a gun in elementary schools, movie theaters, workplaces, houses of worship and on live television, the United States faces a public health crisis of gun violence. Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the CDC from conducting the very research that would help us understand the problems associated with gun violence and determine how to reduce the high rate of firearm-related deaths and injuries. An epidemiological analysis of gun violence is vital so physicians and other health providers, law enforcement, and society at large may be able to prevent injury, death and other harms to society resulting from firearms."
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Zach
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