Media led AWB push continues
CBS again tries to equate the assault weapons ban as a health issue:
But it’s difficult to imagine that gun-control laws didn’t have at least something to do with the drop. And that’s what has health-care professionals worried now that a federal ban on assault-weapons and gear like large-capacity ammunition clips has been allowed to lapse after 10 years.
While there is a tremendous political debate over gun laws, in America’s emergency rooms and trauma centers the questions are not about politics but about carnage: How many more victims will have to be treated and at what cost to society?
Health-care reporter Kristen Gerencher’s Vital Signs looks at the public-health issues surrounding the demise of the assault-weapons ban. Read her column, plus see what the IMF thinks about the possibility of a global bubble in housing prices and get retirement columnist Robert Powell’s advice on figuring just how big your nest egg needs to be, on Thursday’s Personal Finance pages.
Yes, the assault-weapons ban was flawed. But if we’re not willing to at least try to take some military-like shooting instruments off the streets we better be prepared to pony up with more sutures, gauze, IVs and plasma.
These weapons were used in such a minuscule number of crimes that the impact would be utterly insignificant. The blood in the streets, AK47s, and weapon of choice for terrorists angle didn’t work so we’re up to something else.
