The New Public Health Threat


 I saw the story about the US Surgeon General declaring gunshot violence to be a public health threat in the United States. https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/06/25/us-surgeon-general-issues-advisory-public-health-crisis-firearm-violence-united-states.html

 This time the threat is not from a microscopic microbial source but from the serious epidemic of gunshot violence that is taking place in our nation.  It is with alarming and frequent regularity that these incidents are taking place and taking the lives of American citizens and also visitors to our country.  Imagine people from other countries being scared to death at the thought of visiting the United States because our occurrence of gunman shooting episodes has reached epidemic proportions.  I’m sure that they can better grasp this reality than so many Americans who fail to comprehend that the situation is out of control and that we Americans should all take it more seriously and be scared to death also.  For each of us, it could be ourselves or family members or friends who will be among the next victims.  We all now live as part of the gunshot fatality Russian roulette wheel and the wheel is being spun with alarming frequency. 

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