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The U.S. surgeon general on Tuesday declared gun violence a public health crisis, driven by the fast-growing number of injuries and deaths involving firearms in the country. The advisory issued by ...
Joseph V. Sakran is an American trauma surgeon, public health researcher, gun control advocate and activist. Sakran was shot in the throat at the age of 17. [1] He is currently an associate professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University, director of Emergency General Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and vice chair of Clinical Operations.
Vivek Murthy's advisory is a departure from years of denial by the U.S. government. It can only help us treat firearms as the public health crisis they are.
Legislative Information System. Virginia General Assembly. "Virginia Gun Laws Summary". National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action. March 2, 2016. Jouvenal, Justin; Lamothe, Dan. "Senior Navy official charged with pointing gun at men during argument". The Washington Post. July 19, 2016.
Project Exile is a federal program started in Richmond, Virginia, in 1997.Project Exile shifted the prosecution of illegal technical gun possession offenses to federal court, where they carried a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in federal prison under the federal Gun Control Act of 1968, rather than in state court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence in the country a public health crisis on Tuesday, calling on Americans to act to prevent rising firearm-related deaths and ...
United States v. Rahimi, 602 U.S. 680 (2024), was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution and whether it empowers the government to prohibit firearm possession by a person with a civil domestic violence restraining order in the absence of a corresponding criminal domestic violence conviction or charge.
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