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Quote from this website [1] ===== “Gun violence is America’s most preventable disease. I say that because it’s almost entirely preventable and the numbers of

Quote from this website [1] ===== “Gun violence is America’s most preventable disease. I say that because it’s almost entirely preventable and the numbers of people affected are so high.” Judy Schaechter, MD, MBA University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine ===== [1] https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/disease-gun-violence https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/disease-gun-violence

ryandrake 7y ago
You could say a similar thing about car accidents. Does that make car accidents a disease?
- datashow 7y ago
  I also like to see what is the argument for treating gun violence as disease but not car accidents.
- bb611 7y ago
  Regardless of whether you classify it as a disease, the CDC does in fact track and research car accident deaths and injuries: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht... Additionally there are two federal agencies (NHTSB and NTSB) that regulate the various elements of vehicular safety at the national level, on top of state DMVs and transportation departments. By comparison, the federal BATFE is basically hamstrung on firearms regulation, and outside a few States so are its state level equivalents.
  - nl 7y ago
    Additionally, CDC funds and publishes research of motor vehicle safety[1]. Their seat belts topic is a good example: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/pubs.html https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/pubs.html [1] https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/ https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/
shpongled 7y ago
Perhaps gun suicides are preventable, but murder has been a disease that humans will likely always suffer from. We did it long before we had firearms, and we'll still be doing it when we all have blaster rifles.
daxorid 7y ago
You're quoting someone who clearly has innumeracy issues and no business practicing medicine. Type II diabetes kills 1.5 MM people annually ( if Judy were to get out a calculator, she would find that this is a smidgen lower than the "so high" 14k gun homicides per annum ), is an actual disease, and is nearly completely preventable. If Judy Schaechter, MD doesn't know this, then it calls into question her ability to practice medicine. Incidentally, the medical errors caused by medical staff who can't do basic math, as Judy clearly cannot, kills another quarter million annually in the US.

ryandrake 7y ago

You could say a similar thing about car accidents. Does that make car accidents a disease?

datashow 7y ago
I also like to see what is the argument for treating gun violence as disease but not car accidents.
bb611 7y ago
Regardless of whether you classify it as a disease, the CDC does in fact track and research car accident deaths and injuries: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/motor-vehicle-safety/index.ht... Additionally there are two federal agencies (NHTSB and NTSB) that regulate the various elements of vehicular safety at the national level, on top of state DMVs and transportation departments. By comparison, the federal BATFE is basically hamstrung on firearms regulation, and outside a few States so are its state level equivalents.
- nl 7y ago
  Additionally, CDC funds and publishes research of motor vehicle safety[1]. Their seat belts topic is a good example: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/pubs.html https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/pubs.html [1] https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/ https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/

shpongled 7y ago

Perhaps gun suicides are preventable, but murder has been a disease that humans will likely always suffer from. We did it long before we had firearms, and we'll still be doing it when we all have blaster rifles.

daxorid 7y ago

You're quoting someone who clearly has innumeracy issues and no business practicing medicine. Type II diabetes kills 1.5 MM people annually ( if Judy were to get out a calculator, she would find that this is a smidgen lower than the "so high" 14k gun homicides per annum ), is an actual disease, and is nearly completely preventable. If Judy Schaechter, MD doesn't know this, then it calls into question her ability to practice medicine. Incidentally, the medical errors caused by medical staff who can't do basic math, as Judy clearly cannot, kills another quarter million annually in the US.