No. Those claims are just doing the bidding of gun manufacturers. Like smoking, guns are not being outlawed. You can still buy guns. You can ignore the warnings, just like you can ignore the warnings and the ads about the dangers of smoking.The U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, on Tuesday declared gun violence in America a public health crisis, recommending an array of preventive measures that he compared to past campaigns against smoking and traffic safety.
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The National Rifle Association has vigorously opposed this framing and promoted legislation that effectively quashed federal funding for research into gun violence for a quarter-century.
Dr. Murthy’s 32-page advisory calls for an increase in funding for firearm violence prevention research; advises health workers to discuss firearm storage with patients during routine medical visits; and recommends safe storage laws, universal background checks, “red flag” laws and an assault weapons ban, among other measures.
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Gun rights organizations were scathing about the new advisory, deriding it [...] as justification for curtailing the rights of law-abiding gun owners. A spokesman for the N.R.A. called it an “extension of the Biden administration’s war on law abiding gun owners.”
NYT
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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