Posted on 04/25/2020 10:26:19 AM PDT by simpson96
On March 7, Joshua Love became a part of Chicago’s other pandemic. The 21-year old was shot, the single bullet severing his spinal cord.
Long before the word coronavirus became a part of our lives, another public health crisis played out in Chicago on an almost daily basis: people being shot.
That crisis has not abated.
Love is now a patient at Schwab Rehabilitation Center on Chicago’s West Side.
“I can’t walk. I don’t know how long that’s going to last for,” he said during a video call after finishing his morning regimen.
“He sustained a violently acquired spinal cord injury,” said Dr. Michelle Gittler, who serves as chief medical officer for post-acute care at Schwab.
A single bullet can cause havoc inside a body.
“What happens when a missile pierces your body is like old-fashioned pinball, the missile bounces around and bounces around,” Gittler said during an interview standing outside the Rehab Center.
With his spinal cord now severed, Love is part of what he and Dr. Gittler see as Chicago’s other pandemic: gun violence.(snip)
“I mean, we're talking about a vaccine for COVID-19, right. Well, with firearm violence,” she noted, “33,000 and 40,000 firearm deaths [occur] annually. Most of them are suicides. You don't hear people talking about that.”
While one public health crisis has captured the attention of a startled nation, another long-term emergency in Chicago continues victim, after victim, after victim. “We are incapable, as a society, as a community, to discuss this as a public health crisis,” said Gittler.
Asked if gun violence meets the criteria of a pandemic, her one-word answer tells a complete story: “absolutely.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcchicago.com ...
‘Cause those guns don’t just get up and shoot by themselves.
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Amazing ain’t it?
I only own SUVs or Pickups and have yet to have one jump the curb and run down a crowd of people or run a red light and cause an accident.
On the same hand, my gun has NEVER went and fired itself.
I must be getting paranoid becuase I ‘apparently’ must be envious of those that have such items.
When the ‘gun grabbers’ tell me they need to confiscate my gun to help slow/shut down violent crimes etc I respond with
“I guess if we cut off YOUR tallywacker it will cut down on rapes and sexual assaults”..
After a minute of ‘dumb look’ you get the ‘well thats different, I have NEVER done anything like that’
which gets a headshake, roll the eyes and loudly mutter dumb ass as you walk away
Man, I have a dangerous combination. There is a handgun in my pickup.
Mayor Lighthead is on the George Soros payroll - he bought and paid for her election.
Lighthead is a complete disaster as Chicago Mayor.
Fixed it.
Government by sociopath, what a concept!
Where you live, do people have indoor plumbing?
Pandemic
( a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
So it is not possible that this is a pandemic as the authors try t portray it!
“Gun violence” is an oxymoron
And of course there for a very favorite of liberals
They love nonsensical bullcrap
Guns are inanimate objects. They cannot be “violent “
Duh
Need more “gun free zones” (snark)
“Just the facts Ma’am”
In 2014 in New York City, a black was 31 times more likely than a white to be arrested for murder, and a Hispanic was 12.4 times more likely. For the crime of “shooting” — defined as firing a bullet that hits someone — a black was 98.4 times more likely than a white to be arrested, and a Hispanic was 23.6 times more likely.
If New York City were all white, the murder rate would drop by 91 percent, the robbery rate by 81 percent, and the shootings rate by 97 percent.
In an all-white Chicago, murder would decline 90 percent, rape by 81 percent, and robbery by 90 percent.
In 2015, a black person was 2.45 times more likely than a white person to be shot and killed by the police. A Hispanic person was 1.21 times more likely. These figures are well within what would be expected given race differences in crime rates and likelihood to resist arrest.
In 2015, police killings of blacks accounted for approximately 4 percent of homicides of blacks. Police killings of unarmed blacks accounted for approximately 0.6 percent of homicides of blacks. The overwhelming majority of black homicide victims (93 percent from 1980 to 2008) were killed by blacks.
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