Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday described the recent spate of mass shootings as “horrifying” and acknowledged that increased gun violence is a matter of public health.
In an interview with CNN’s “State of the Union,” Fauci said as a public health official, “I think you can’t run away from” the fact that the country has seen nearly 50 mass shootings over just the last month.
“When you see people getting killed, I mean, in this last month, it’s just been horrifying what’s happened,” Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, told host Dana Bash. “How can you say that’s not a public health issue?”
Dr. Anthony Fauci on whether he considers gun violence a public health emergency: “When you see people getting killed, I mean, in this last month, it’s just been horrifying what’s happened. How can you say that’s not a public health issue?” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/9lEhV3aZqL
— State of the Union (@CNNSotu) April 18, 2021
CNN reported that the U.S. has seen at least 45 mass shootings, in which four or more people excluding the gunmen are wounded or killed, since the March 16 killing of eight at three Georgia spas.
The Gun Violence Archive has tracked at least 150 mass shootings throughout 2021.
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Last week, eight people were killed in a shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis.
Biden, whose top priority has been addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, has issued executive orders targeting homemade “ghost guns” and handgun braces that let them be fired from a shoulder, according to the Associated Press. He has supported Democrats’ legislation to bolster federal background checks but has not proposed any related laws from the White House, AP reported.
More than 5,500 people this year have died or been injured in gun violence, whether homicides or accidents, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Meanwhile, more than 7,100 of this year’s 12,000-plus gun violence deaths have been due to suicide.
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Well, Dr Fauci, concern has been raised all along about the adverse health effects resulting from the insane lockdowns in this country—the effects on people’s psyche and emotions in particular. Evidently, you don’t accept that as legitimate. The total lack of credible information from all of the “experts” in this COVID panic combined with all of the unnecessary restraints on individuals and businesses, is more than enough to make people snap. Your BS, government control, and media sensationalism are all contributors to what we are seeing on a daily basis. And, as with all things, such interference only makes matters worse. Stand back and admire your work.
AND when for YEARS we saw the media not CARE about mass shootings by BLACKS ON BLACKS< its very telling, we are now seeing them say its a "health issue"..
And the conspiracy nut in me, feels its VERY TELLING< that each time the left pushes for 'anti-gun laws, WE SEE A MASSIVE SPIKE in these shootings….. Almost like they are COORDINATED.
Is there no end to the BS from this clown? He has become the nation’s biggest health problem. Somebody please sedate him and put him in a retirement home…
Make sure that retirement home is in New Yawk!
Most definitely a retirement home in New York
Unfortunately no.. AS LONG as the spineless cowards in the GOP do NOTHING to try and get him out of office, he will KEEP PUSHING this insanity.
Dr. Fauci is a “health hazard” to our Country. So Dr. Fauci, you are a “public health emergency”.
Plus the vast majority of the shootings happen when the communist occupier democrats are in control. So it’s time to “remove the cause… but not the symptom” … Quote from Rocky Horror Picture Show.
AND they all only happen in GUN FREE zones, areas the LEFT SHOVED in our faces as “ways to end gun violence”. SO FAR all i’ve seen is that they not only do nothing to END gun violence, but ENCOURAGE IT!
fauci the quack is enamored by his celebrity status among the democraps.
Dri. Fauci is drunk on power. Any credibility he had is long gone. I wish he’d stop talking!
DID he ever HAVE any credibility?? From all i’ve seen and read up on him, i highly DOUBT it.
a week and a half over a a year later, I tested positive for Covid antibodies. If you have had the disease then you don’t need the vaccine. Stop letting these people control you.
AND since teh bloody vaccine does NOTHING TO stop you catching covid, and even if you get it, you are STILL mandated to mask the hell up, WHAT THE HELL is the point in getting the bloody vaccine!!!!
I think we can see exactly where the radical left’s gun grabbers and their patron saint of draconian restrictions, Dr. Fauci, are going with their next outrageous public health campaign. The Second Amendment is a serious threat to public health and must be attacked with the same massive effort that we are employing against the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead of wearing masks, social distancing, and getting vaccinated, all law-abiding citizens have to do to end this pandemic of gun violence is surrender all of their legally owned firearms and everything will be fine. This is just another egregious example of the left’s delusional thinking. We need to address gun violence by having stricter enforcement of existing laws and imposing much longer prison sentences for convicted gun felons.
Hell, go back to the days, where we EXECUTED violent criminals, who used guns in their crimes… AND DO those executions SWIFTLY and publicly!
I’ve got news for the communist occupier democrats… the only guns that will be given up for a buy back is any firearm that’s worn out and not worth fixing… then we will use the money to buy amo…. before the storming of the Bastille.
Fauci funneled over $4,000,000.00 to the Wuhan lab even AFTER it was illegal to do so. Even the Barry O administration knew it was wrong and outlawed it. Fauci the Duck (Quack Quack)
YET not one congressional coward, has ever DARED say he should get PUNISHED for breaking the law like that…
I’d have more faith in Daffy or Donald than I would in Quack Quack Quack Fauci.
Hell, i have more faith in elmer FUDD than i do fauci.
More than 5,500 people this year have died or been injured in gun violence,…….Almost as many as have contracted Covid after being fully “inoculated”.
Some of those were shot while committing a crime.
One was an unarmed Air Force Veteran, wrapped in an American flag. Her killer is being protected by the corrupt DOJ.
AND how many of those 5,500 were killed in GANG violence?? Perhaps we need a public health emergency declared on the heads of EVERY GANG banger out there.