Posted on 06/30/2016 2:46:26 PM PDT by spintreebob
MIAMI —The man on the table at Ryder Trauma Center in Jackson Memorial Hospital has been shot four times, in the forearm, chest, flank, and thigh. Dr. George Garcia spends two hours operating on him, removing bullet fragments, closing blood vessels and repairing tissue. By the time he’s tied the last suture it’s 2 a.m. Garcia tosses his blood-stained gloves in the trash and goes out to tell the victim’s father his son will be fine.
Then Garcia’s pager signals that an ambulance is on its way with another shooting victim. And so, he heads to the observation bays to greet his next patient.
(Excerpt) Read more at modernhealthcare.com ...
Note the doctor does not support the spin of the journalist. The doctor is saying the problems are societal. I would say things like destruction of the family and destruction of the local church, local school and other voluntary institutions of social control.
But the journalist blames the inanimate object. Watch for more of this from Healthcare journalists as Obamacare and HHS become a major force in the gun debate.
Arrest violent criminals and the worse their offense the longer the sentence. And death by execution must be often and SWIFT.
That will solve the problem.
Interesting how motive is left out.
“Licensed retailers must follow the same regulations and
procedures, including conducting criminal background
checks, when conducting business at gun shows just as
they would if at their store or other place of business.”
“Most of the vendors at gun shows — up to 75 percent
— are licensed dealers.i If you are a licensed firearms
dealer, you are allowed to sell at gun shows in your own
state. However, all the same rules apply. You must run
a federal background check on any individual you sell
a firearm to through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS). The same paperwork,
recordkeeping, age restrictions, and other rules also apply,
as if the sale occurred in the dealer’s place of business.”
“In practice, federal law is just the floor of restrictions
on gun shows. Many gun show promoters require that
all vendors leasing space at a show, including private
parties, must agree to run background checks, regardless
of whether they hold federal licenses or not. The vast
majority of guns sold at gun shows go through federal
background checks.
Further, in several states there is another layer of regulation
as some states require background checks as part of all
private firearms transactions. Background checks for private
firearm sales are required in seventeen states.”
“Fact: While there is nothing you can do inside a gun show
that you can’t do outside a gun show, the firearms industry
has never opposed instant background checks at these
events. The reason why this has not come to pass is that
anti-gun legislators do not support an instant check.
They, along with the gun-ban lobby, have tried to incorporate waiting periods for all buyers at gun shows. Such an action is not only unnecessary, as the FBI National Instant Check System would require only seconds to conduct a federal
background check, but must be considered a de facto ban of
all gun shows, as implementing a five-day waiting period for a two-day gun show is impossible.”
“Claim: Criminals get their guns at gun shows.
Fact: According to a November 2001 study by the U.S.
Department of Justice of state and prison inmates, less
than one percent (0.7) of criminals that possessed a
firearm during their current offense acquired their guns
from gun shows.iii By contrast, nearly 40 percent reported
acquiring their guns illegally, such as by theft.”
http://www.nssf.org/factsheets/PDF/MythofGunShowLoophole.pdf
Perhaps a one-year 50% income tax credit for a gun safe purchase would be in order.
To encourage locked gun storage, perhaps after July 2017, ATF teams in ATF marked cars accompanied by a local police car could stop at houses around town. They would knock. If you answer, and allow them in and have your guns safely stored, they might hand you $1,000 in cash, income-tax free.
The whole pitch of the article is that the doctors and nurses who are on the front line in the inner cities are yet another set of victims of “gun violence”.
And of course, it’s the firearms that are problem. To make the point even more obvious, one of the next articles is about banning “assault rifles”.
The real problem is obvious but not to the authors of these kinds of pieces - it’s weapons in the hands of young criminals and gang members in the center if our cities, almost all of our cities. The issue really is, how do we keep weapons out of their hands but they wouldn’t ever think of whispering a thing.
If want to stop the murder, all we have to is get leaders who won’t flinch about naming the problem and sending the forces we need to eliminate once and for all the crime centers and the criminals even if means going door to door for as long as it takes.
Recidivist criminals are the problem, not guns.
If you are not willing to keep dangerous people locked up, then it should come as no surprise if violence follows.
Recidivist criminals are the problem, not guns.
If you are not willing to keep dangerous people locked up, then it should come as no surprise if violence follows.
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