H.R.1114 – To require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to submit to Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on public health
This is as short a Resolution as I can remember seeing and would seem pretty straightforward, but is it? Keep watching this one it may change. Here is what makes me wonder about it. How could anyone measure the effect of anything so broad in context? How could you measure the effect of gun violence when such a tiny percentage of the population will ever experience violence involving a gun? Here is a link to an old article from GOA that helps us understand how these issues are of medical relevance. Are they simply going to guess? I’ve seen violence with and without a firearm and it’s the same, lock up criminals and keep them locked up if they are violent.
