Posted on 04/18/2021 5:56:29 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday that the "horrifying" spate of mass shootings in the U.S. shows why gun violence is a public health issue.
"As a public health person, I think you can't run away from that," Fauci said on CNN's "State of the Union" when host Dana Bash asked if gun violence is a "public health emergency."
"I mean, in this last month, it's just been horrifying," replied Fauci, the U.S. government's foremost infectious disease expert. "How can you say that's not a public health issue?"
The question came in the aftermath of Thursday's mass shooting at an Indianapolis FedEx facility, where nine people were left dead, including the gunman.
Another eight people were killed in the Atlanta area last month, when a shooter attacked spa businesses. And 10 people were killed last month in a supermarket in Boulder, Colo. All the incidents put together, CNN reported, totaled to more than 40 mass shootings in the past month.
Earlier this month, President Biden called gun violence an "epidemic" and "international embarrassment" when he announced a half-dozen executive actions on firearms.
Mass shootings occurred much less frequently last year during the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns. According to the Associated Press, 2020 had the smallest number of such shootings in more than a decade.
Former President Barack Obama, who had to repeatedly address mass shootings during his eight years in office, argued after the Boulder shooting last month that the U.S. can't rely on a "once-in-a-century pandemic" to slow such attacks.
"We shouldn't have to choose between one type of tragedy and another," Obama said.
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A gun is not a health issue, I had a gun for more than four years and the only doctors I visited were the dentist and a doctor for foot fungus, that has nothing to do with the weapon.
The brainwashing comes from women’s studies, nursing, English, social work, psychology and other departments in the universities.
I don’t have a problem with most of your list, but I do take issue with nursing one. I know many nurses and doctors that are second amendment advocates. There are some that carry when going into work, even tho they aren’t supposed to, or have their firearms locked in their vehicles while at work.
It’s a Constitutional right, Fauci, you Hillary-loving little pipsqueak.
And the fact that you’ve been in Washington since the Lyndon Johnson administration and are currently paid $416,000+ per year is outrageous.
Stay in your lane Fauci!
But then again he and his colleagues in the public health field were supposed to be prepared for a pandemic. But they weren't. They failed to prepare, failed to get information about what was really happening in China, failed to shut off travel into the USA in a timely fashion, and failed to quarantine people with COVID-19. And as a result more Americans died in the past year than in the past 16 years from anything involving a firearm.
If you take out suicides and deaths caused by defensive use of firearms the mistakes of Dr. Fauci's colleagues and our politicians dealing with COVID-19 have killed more people in the last year than died from gun violence in the USA in the last 40 years.
For every violent gun death in America, there are 150 gun BRANDISHING events which deflate violent situations.
These libtards are simply hoplophobes.
Is there anything this dickhead doesn’t know?
When government distrusts you with your own health... we attain paranoia not seem since Stalin and Hitler combined.
The sooner we stop listening to Fauxi, the better!
He is a little twerp/tyrant that suffers from a double complex, he is Italian and wishes that he was French as he feels like Napoleon Blown-Apart who should rule the health of the world. Get rid of the little scumbag, ASAP.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/19/knives-gun-control-fbi-statistics/
"How can you say that's not a public health issue?"
That's easy, Mr. Fauch, .. NO, it is not a public health issue.
It's just as easy to pontificate on the deaths caused with trains, planes and automobiles. And alcohol, drugs, brutal parents, and malpracticing quacks.
These are all implements of death and are not public health issues, even that last one above. These deaths are inflicted by people.
Fauch - you are a put^.
This a$$hole just sucks. Always.
Fauci runs away from every other health concern he’s asked about.
Covid coming over the border. Lockdown-created suicides, depression, people missing regular health checks, ... and on and on.
Total fraud!
Shut up you pathetic little crap-weasel!
If it is a health issue provide us a vaccine. Sheesh.
For all of those who bow the knee and wear a mask, take a vax.. the next logical step we warned you about is here. The dems will never stop and you just handed them theanswer to their wildest dreams. King fauci thanks your for your fear and submission.
The democrat party poses a major health issue to our country. They are a clear and present danger to us.
never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...
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