Posted on 06/14/2016 1:49:30 PM PDT by Innovative
The organization is making lobbying for gun control a top priority.
The AMA, the country's largest doctor group, also vowed to lobby Congress to overturn a decades-old ban on gun violence research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"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," AMA president Dr. Steven Stack said in a statement.
"Even as America faces a crisis unrivaled in any other developed country, the Congress prohibits the [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] 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," he added.
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And when the government control healthcare, they will make that argument.
I know I am sick and tired of the government blaming actions of thugs, murderers, rapists, and other associate anti-Americans on innocent guns. Guess that makes this a health crisis?
AMA: Your in the medical field, your getting paid quite nicely from the OBUMACARE package, so far, so go back under your rock and STFU!!!
Have you seen the numbers for death by medical professionals?
“Physician, heal thyself.”
AMA Liberal Group
Liberals and ISIS are a public health crisis!!
If you can blame the guns of law-abiding citizens for the actions of criminals and terrorists, then we should blame the doctors if the gunshot victim makes it to a hospital and still dies.
we don’t need a bunch of radical leftist quacks at the AMA to tell us that guns shoot holes in their targets
that’s exactly what they are supposed to do
(these damned quacks are just trying to get multi-million dollar “federal study grants”.... to parrot back the obvious to us...at our expense..... this is just a racket to rob the taxpayers)
The AMA has been a joke for at least 2 decades. Very little “medical” and very much “politics.”
Considering that more than 200,000 people die each year due to mistakes made during medical care/treatment, that is an understatement.
Wonder if the research will turn up where and who is committing all the gun violence.
Chicago, East St. Louis, Camden, New Jersey, LA, DC.
If Obama had a tribe....
There is a public health crisis and it is being caused by our government letting every vagrant from all parts of the world in with diseases we have not seen.
Why is the AMA not doing anything about the 80,000 people who die each year through doctors’ negligence?
The AMA’s war against other medical specialties like chiropractic and naturopathic is the real Public Health Crisis.
They are getting to it. They learned from the VA.
Yes, what are the odds of dying at the hands of a member of the AMA as aversed to getting shot down in a Gay bar?
...Why is the AMA not doing anything about the 80,000 people who die each year through doctors’ negligence?...
The first number coming up in a Google search of annual malpractice deaths is 440,000 people annually (2014). That is a huge health crisis.
A case of “doctor, heal yourself.”
Public policy propagandists and their lawyers in white lab coats wearing stethoscopes.
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