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“I believe America should adopt common sense gun controls. This includes requiring every gun owner to attend a mandatory gun safety class.” What other constitutional rights would you like to see additional regulations on or need a permit/license for?
What other constitutional rights could lead to people dying unnecessarily?
I love how Americans claim that their assault weapons "protect them from Tyranny" and then simultaneously have to pay a $200 fine to their Homeowners association because their door is painted the wrong colour or they bought the wrong garden gnome.
If your gun isnt intimidating the middle-aged Martha on your street, its not intimidating a government who have access to war machines.
Why is America the only one with the Gun Problem?
They watch violent movies and TV shows in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They watch violent cartoons (re anime) in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They play violent video games in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They listen to gangsta rap and heavy metal music in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They have people who are victims of domestic violence in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They have people with mental health issues in other countries too, but they don't have mass shootings like in the US.
They have kids who are bullied in school in other countries too, but they don’t have mass shootings like in the US.
Some of these countries even have a huge population of private citizens who own guns, but they still don't have mass shootings like in the US.
Why? If not for strict(er) background checks and gun regulations (or dare I say "gun control"), then what is?
Can we, at least, please stop using the things listed above as scapegoats already, as they apparently aren’t what’s causing people, particularly youngsters, to go out and shoot people en masse?
Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Texas, testified during Wednesday's hearing and recounted a horrifying and disturbing scene he saw at Uv
Dr. Roy Guerrero, a pediatrician in Texas, testified during Wednesday's hearing and recounted a horrifying and disturbing scene he saw at Uvalde Memorial Hospital on the day of the mass shooting.
Guerrero — who said he's lived in Uvalde his whole life and treated children in the community before the massacre — said that he "raced" to Uvalde Memorial Hospital on the day of the mass shooting.
Read his full remarks here:
"My name is Dr. Roy Guerrero. I am a board certified pediatrician and I was present at Uvalde Memorial Hospital the day of the massacre on May 24th, 2022 at Robb Elementary School. I was called here today as a witness. But I showed up because I am a doctor. Because how many years ago I swore an oath — An oath to do no harm. After witnessing first hand the carnage in my hometown of Uvalde, to stay silent would have betrayed that oath. Inaction is harm. Passivity is harm. Delay is harm. So here I am. Not to plead, not to beg or to convince you of anything. But to do my job. And hope that by doing so it inspires the members of this House to do theirs.
I have lived in Uvalde my whole life. In fact, I attended Robb Elementary School myself as a kid. As often is the case with us grown ups, we remember a lot of the good and not so much of the bad. So I don’t recall homework or spelling bees, I remember how much I loved going to school and what a joyful time it was.
Back then we were able to run between classrooms with ease to visit our friends. And I remember the way the cafeteria smelled lunchtime on Hamburger Thursdays.
It was right around lunchtime on a Tuesday that a gunman entered the school through the main door without restriction, massacred 19 students and two teachers and changed the way every student at Robb and their families will remember that school, forever. I doubt they’ll remember the smell of the cafeteria or the laughter ringing in the hallways. Instead they’ll be haunted by the memory of screams and bloodshed, panic and chaos. Police shouting, parents wailing. I know I will never forget what I saw that day.
For me, that day started like any typical Tuesday at our Pediatric clinic - moms calling for coughs, boogers, sports physicals – right before the summer rush. School was out in two days then summer camps would guarantee some grazes and ankle sprains. Injuries that could be patched up and fixed with a Mickey Mouse sticker as a reward.
Then at 12:30 business as usual stopped and with it my heart. A colleague from a San Antonio trauma center texted me a message: 'Why are the pediatric surgeons and anesthesiologists on call for a mass shooting in Uvalde?'
I raced to the hospital to find parents outside yelling children’s names in desperation and sobbing as they begged for any news related to their child. Those mother’s cries I will never get out of my head. As I entered the chaos of the ER, the first casualty I came across was Miah Cerrillo. She was sitting in the hallway. Her face was still, still clearly in shock, but her whole body was shaking from the adrenaline coursing through it. The white Lilo and Stitch shirt she wore was covered in blood and her shoulder was bleeding from a shrapnel injury.
Sweet Miah. I’ve known her my whole life. As a baby she survived major liver surgeries against all odds. And once again she’s here. As a survivor. Inspiring us with her story today and her bravery. When I saw Miah sitting there, I remembered having seen her parents outside. So after quickly examining two other patients of mine in the hallway with minor injuries, I raced outside to let them know Miah was alive. I wasn’t ready for their next urgent and desperate question: 'Where's Elena?'
Elena, is Miah’s 8-year-old sister who was also at Robb at the time of the shooting. I had heard from some nurses that there were “two dead children” who had been moved to the surgical area of the hospital. As I made my way there, I prayed that I wouldn’t find her. I didn’t find Elena, but what I did find was something no prayer will ever relieve.
Two children, whose bodies had been so pulverized by the bullets fired at them, decapitated, whose flesh had been so ripped apart, that the only clue as to their identities was the blood spattered cartoon clothes still clinging to them. Clinging for life and finding none.
I could only hope these two bodies were a tragic exception to the list of survivors. But as I waited there with my fellow Uvalde doctors, nurses, first responders and hospital staff for other casualties we hoped to save, they never arrived. All that remained was the bodies of 17 more children and the two teachers who cared for them, who dedicated their careers to nurturing and respecting the awesome potential of every single one. Just as we doctors do. I’ll tell you why I became a pediatrician. Because I knew that children were the best patients. They accept the situation as it’s explained to them. You don’t have to coax them into changing their lifestyles in order to get better or
plead them to modify their behavior as you do with adults. No matter how hard you try to help an adult, their path to healing is always determined by how willing they are to take action. Adults are stubborn. We’re resistant to change even when the change will make things better for ourselves. But especially when we think we’re immune to the fallout.
Why else would there have been such little progress made in Congress to stop gun violence?
Innocent children all over the country today are dead because laws and policy allows people to buy weapons before they’re legally even old enough to buy a pack of beer. They are dead because restrictions have been allowed to lapse. They’re dead because there are no rules about where guns are kept. Because no one is paying attention to who is buying them.
The thing I can’t figure out is whether our politicians are failing us out of stubbornness, passivity or both. I said before that as grown ups we have a convenient habit of remembering the good and forgetting the bad. Never more so than when it comes to our guns. Once the blood is rinsed away from the bodies of our loved ones, and scrubbed off the floors or the schools and supermarkets and churches, the carnage from each scene is erased from our collective conscience and we return once again to nostalgia.
To the rose tinted view of our second amendment as a perfect instrument of American life, no matter how many lives are lost. I chose to be a pediatrician. I chose to take care of children. Keeping them safe from preventable diseases I can do. Keeping them safe from bacteria and brittle bones I can do. But making sure our children are safe from guns, that’s the job of our politicians and leaders. In this case, you are the doctors and our country is the patient. We are lying on the operating table, riddled with bullets like the children of Robb Elementary and so many other schools. We are bleeding out and you are not there.
My oath as a doctor means that I signed up to save lives. I do my job. And I guess it turns out that I am here to plead. To beg. To please, please do yours."
Archer, Nathan. “Lock Your Car!” Tallahassee Democrat, September 22, 2019. https://on.tdo.com/2nUeq7o.
Guns are a bit of a hot button issue, especially after gun related incidents. I wholeheartedly believe that politicians use these incidents and their exaggerated outrage as self-marketing to boost their approval ratings and help them get elected again. I have very little faith that politicians actually care about the people.
I believe America should adopt common sense gun controls. This includes requiring every gun owner to attend a mandatory gun safety class.
Any one who hunts already has to take hunters safety, but that's only folks who want a hunting license. There are plenty of people who buy guns for defensive purposes or just because they Like Guns. I live in rural Wyoming, which is like, 90 percent of Wyoming. In my county of nearly 47,000 people, there has been 57 self induced gun injuries in the last year. Some due to a slip up, most due to ignorance.
I don't shoot, I don't find it fun, but my dad taught me how as a kid in case it was something I wanted/had to do. It was the most terrifying experience of my life. Dad drilled into me gun safety by screaming at me when I did something wrong. He was scared I was going to hurt myself and wanted to make sure I would never do it again. It sucked, but it was effective, and I'm glad he did it. The basic gun safety I learned was:
Don't point your gun at something your aren't prepared to shoot, loaded or not.
NEVER WALK IN FRONT OF SOMEONE WITH A GUN EVEN IF THEY ARENT AIMING.
Treat every gun as if it's loaded, even if you know it isn't.
Treat every gun as if the safety if off, even if you know it's on.
Do not look down the barrel of your own gun. See point 1.
If you think you may have something in the barrel, use a cleaning brush to remove it. If you fire your gun when something it stuck in the barrel, it may stop the bullet and explode in your hand.
Clean your gun regularly. Dad's rule of thumb is to clean it after 5 uses. Not bullets, but after the fifth time you go shooting, clean your gun. This doesn't only extend the life of your gun, but also let's you see if anything is wrong with it, or if parts need replaced.
Practice taking apart and putting back together your gun before you use it. This helps prevent incidents due to incorrect placement of parts.
Put your target on something solid that a bullet won't go through. This ensures that you don't accidentally shoot someone from a distance, or as we where more worried about, someones horse. Dad used his back hoe to dig into a hill on our property to use as a shooting range.
If you are planning to use your gun to hunt, practice with it at a shooting range first, so you know what to expect, especially with the recoil. Many of the injuries this past year were dislocated shoulders from recoil.
Just straight up don't take your gun out of the safe if small children are around. Kids don't know shit and they're curious.
Wait until your child is around 10-11 to teach them how to shoot, and be very serious about it. Stress the importance of gun safety and ensure that they know that while you may be shooting because you enjoy it, guns are dangerous and could hurt or kill people. They are not toys.
This is not an exhaustive list of rules, but the most important one that I have been taught. Whether for fun, defense, or sport, follow gun safety rules to reduce the risk of injuring yourself or others.
“What other constitutional rights could lead to people dying unnecessarily?” Fantastic answer. Straight from the liberal “deflect and change subject” play book. Nicely done. I had a feeling you were going to straight up ignore it but dodge and deflect was a close second. Your parents must be so proud.
They are, thank you for asking. Remember when I said my dad beat gun safety rules into me? We don't agree on everything, but we agree on this. No one's rights should come at the cost of someone else's life or safety. And I'm not saying no one should have guns. I'm saying if people want guns, they should know how to safe with them, both for the good of others and themselves. It's no different then requiring folks to prove they know how to drive before letting them on the road.
And don't get me started on the right's proclivity for what-about-ism. People in glass houses, and all that.
