Dean Megan Ranney testifies on gun violence as a public health crisis before Congress

Yale School of Public Health Dean Megan L. Ranney, MD, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on November 28, 2023, urging Congress to support a public health approach to the nation’s gun violence crisis.
“We are turning into a nation of traumatized survivors,” Ranney said. “But I have story after story of public health collaborations between gun owners and non-gun owners, hospital workers and community violence interrupters, faith leaders and survivors. We have shown we can reduce the risk of a shooting long before someone picks up a gun with intent to harm. Through your bipartisan commitment to this public health approach our country can reduce firearm injury and death for all.”

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If there were a way to help with the spiritual issues that lead to gun violence without interfering with rights that would a tremendous boon to the country. Americans say all the time that it's not the guns, it's the people. That it's possible for a community to be full of gun owners where gun violence is low. I've yet to see anyone in a position of power actually agree with this and advocate for steps to help people emotionally and spiritually.

[@mariamead]

Countries with fewer guns have fewer deaths. We do not need so many guns! Australia's deaths went way down when they reduced their firearms.

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@@mariamead
Can never fix an issue that is unconstitutional, we as a country have always band-aided issues instead of attacking the underlying causes.
As for truly banning guns without pissing off half the population, you'd need to rewrite the Constitution... which probably won't happen.
Sure, criminals kill people, and guns make is easier.
But why do they do it?
You go into the rabbit hole of corruption and lies.
Corrupt mayors enabling and keeping cities ghetto, old racial systems put into place and politicians not caring about passing laws to better the situations in those areas.
Mental health for the school shooting part. Not enough sources of good counselors in schools or outside affordable mental health.
Desperate people are the problem, make them less desperate.
There's a whole boatload of issues that no one wants to talk about and would rather cover the issues instead of the root cause.
Get the corrupt out before anything can get fixed.