On June 26, 2024 the US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, released a 32-page advisory titled “Firearm Violence: A Public Health Crisis in America”, “arguing the issue needed to be put in the realm of “public health” and out of politics.” He recommends “an array of preventive measures that he compared to past campaigns against smoking and traffic safety” including a call “for an increase in funding for firearm violence prevention research.” [1, 2, 3]
- “While mass shooting deaths (definition varies, generally 4 or more) represent only about 1% of all firearm‑related deaths in the U.S., the number of mass shooting incidents is increasing”
- “Unlike…prescription drugs that are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), there are no federal standards or regulations regarding the safety of firearms produced in the U.S.”
- “In 2020, gunshot wounds surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States.” – when many drivers were locked down in their homes!
Johns Hopkins (JH) University established a Center for Gun Violence Solutions (CGVS) to research a “public health approach to prevent gun violence”. Where they states “Public health is the science of reducing and preventing injury, disease, and death and promoting the health and well-being of populations through the use of data, research, and effective policies and practices”. [5, 6]
- JH refrenced “Washington Post” to claim “Unarmed Black people are over three times more likely to be shot and killed by police compared to white people”, neglected to state “in the last 12 months”
- March 2023 – CGVS: “The Deadly Intersection of White Supremacy and Gun Violence” – WATCH
- November 2020 – The Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Prevention, report was published by The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence an NGO founded in 1978 – PDF
According the CDC of the 48,000 firearm-related deaths in the United States in 2022, more than half (>24,000) were suicides, this means of the average 132 people dying from a firearm-related injury each day, atleast 66 are from suicide.
Do you think they’ll ever investigate the pharmaceutical, antidepressant drug link to mass shootings, suicides and gunshot death? [4]