How many Americans need to died? The NRA’’s CDC lobbying. Twenty years of the Dickey Amendment prohibits Federal funds to be used to study gun related deaths & injuries. ENOUGH REPEAL IT
If you managed to make it all the way to the end of this long article- your reading is rewarded because I found (via the DOJ-Digital Library) a 104 page FOIA’d document that shows just how many meetings and hand-in-glove communications between the Office of Attorney General at Main Justice and then uploaded the redlined FOIA documents to Scribd - research man - just show me the underlying documents
These tweets were in direct response to that NRA tweet the medical community quickly and devastatingly clapped back #ThisIsMyLane <—that will take you to the countless medical professionals tweets and showing us what they see everyday and the carnage guns cause and these men/women in the medical community’s priority is save a life.
I only worked ER during my nursing school rotations so didn’t really get much GSW experience prior to working. After working in CDCR I got more than my fair share... officers forced to fire after multiple vocal warnings, followed by warning shots from rubber rounds.
They were obligated to use lethal force to break up assaults by gang members who’d been ordered to kill another inmate. It was traumatizing for the officers who had to use deadly force to save another inmates life, as well as for medical staff who had to respond to the scene to try and save the life of the aggressor who’d been shot.
Such a good piece, Filey. 🏆
I love to shoot, too btw. But I saw this shit coming in the late 90’s. LE/Cops got scared because of all the crime on the streets. They started buying off-duty weapons and getting concealed carry permits. Criminals were killing cops for the helluva of it.
God bless Joe for tackling this problem head on. I just pray his health & vitality hold up and he can do another four years. I want Kamala to have everything going her way when she runs for VP but I’m not sure Joe can offer her a soft landing as soon as 2024, ya know?
I’m encouraged by Anne Milgram heading DEA, though. She’ll bring her Moneyball magic and fix this shit like she did in Camden.
The LEO concerns are real. The ghost guns are incredibly problematic. Particularly after the Trump Admin reverse course on the 3D CAD and the click print & shoot. LEO inabilities to trace unserialized guns also exacerbates the issue. Add in the the growing “being out gunned” it puts LEO in extreme danger and it’s worrisome. A 9MM is no match to an AK or AR plus the bullet caliber .223 does so much carnage to a body. It’s why I will continue to atone for working for the NRA. I understand the solemnity of my atonement and that’s why I won’t stop writing & getting facts into the public ethos
Thx! Even if the US gun current private "stockpile" was reduced by 3 million per year it'd take more than a century to whittle it down and that's without further growth. Doesn't seem possible that the gun death epidemic can be effectively dealt with given the US cultural lover affair with firearms?
I despise the lobbying process, and lobbying groups in general. It's usually big money trying to buy their way into policy writing and it SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL. Not for anyone, I don't care what your group is promoting. Bribery isn't legal, why would lobbying be?
If private insurance had to pay for a majority of the medical bills - congress would have to choose whose money is more valuable - NRA grift or the insurance grift. Your employment at the NRA makes you valuable - legitimacy and accuracy.
If you managed to make it all the way to the end of this long article- your reading is rewarded because I found (via the DOJ-Digital Library) a 104 page FOIA’d document that shows just how many meetings and hand-in-glove communications between the Office of Attorney General at Main Justice and then uploaded the redlined FOIA documents to Scribd - research man - just show me the underlying documents
https://www.scribd.com/document/515963735/DOJ-Gun-Lobby-Communications-FOIA-d-2019
And oh-my-God: the financial costs of gun violence!!! You’d think Republicans would be swayed by that alone, right? 😑
Reading your article now.... this really hit me:
These tweets were in direct response to that NRA tweet the medical community quickly and devastatingly clapped back #ThisIsMyLane <—that will take you to the countless medical professionals tweets and showing us what they see everyday and the carnage guns cause and these men/women in the medical community’s priority is save a life.
I only worked ER during my nursing school rotations so didn’t really get much GSW experience prior to working. After working in CDCR I got more than my fair share... officers forced to fire after multiple vocal warnings, followed by warning shots from rubber rounds.
They were obligated to use lethal force to break up assaults by gang members who’d been ordered to kill another inmate. It was traumatizing for the officers who had to use deadly force to save another inmates life, as well as for medical staff who had to respond to the scene to try and save the life of the aggressor who’d been shot.
Such a good piece, Filey. 🏆
I love to shoot, too btw. But I saw this shit coming in the late 90’s. LE/Cops got scared because of all the crime on the streets. They started buying off-duty weapons and getting concealed carry permits. Criminals were killing cops for the helluva of it.
God bless Joe for tackling this problem head on. I just pray his health & vitality hold up and he can do another four years. I want Kamala to have everything going her way when she runs for VP but I’m not sure Joe can offer her a soft landing as soon as 2024, ya know?
I’m encouraged by Anne Milgram heading DEA, though. She’ll bring her Moneyball magic and fix this shit like she did in Camden.
Sorry I’m rambling... 🥰🥰🥰
The LEO concerns are real. The ghost guns are incredibly problematic. Particularly after the Trump Admin reverse course on the 3D CAD and the click print & shoot. LEO inabilities to trace unserialized guns also exacerbates the issue. Add in the the growing “being out gunned” it puts LEO in extreme danger and it’s worrisome. A 9MM is no match to an AK or AR plus the bullet caliber .223 does so much carnage to a body. It’s why I will continue to atone for working for the NRA. I understand the solemnity of my atonement and that’s why I won’t stop writing & getting facts into the public ethos
Thx! Even if the US gun current private "stockpile" was reduced by 3 million per year it'd take more than a century to whittle it down and that's without further growth. Doesn't seem possible that the gun death epidemic can be effectively dealt with given the US cultural lover affair with firearms?
I despise the lobbying process, and lobbying groups in general. It's usually big money trying to buy their way into policy writing and it SHOULD NOT BE LEGAL. Not for anyone, I don't care what your group is promoting. Bribery isn't legal, why would lobbying be?
If private insurance had to pay for a majority of the medical bills - congress would have to choose whose money is more valuable - NRA grift or the insurance grift. Your employment at the NRA makes you valuable - legitimacy and accuracy.