Shooting Straight: Calling Guns a Public Health Crisis Won’t Reduce Violence, But it Isn’t Meant To
Now that the Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy, has declared “gun violence” a public health crisis, life has immediately improved. The heavens have opened, the angels are singing, and darned if a cute little cherub didn’t come flying down to anoint us all — at least in this part of Texas — with glitter and […]
Murthy Missed One Thing in His ‘Public Health Crisis’ Declaration…the Data
In the 1980s, when Surgeon General C. Everett Koop embarked on an effort to make America a “smoke‐free society by the year 2000,” it marked the beginning of an expanded role for the Surgeon General. Since Koop, Surgeons General have seen themselves as “the nation’s doctor.” They have influenced Congress to pass legislation on ever‐expanding […]