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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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Violence Prevention Act - Passes 93% to 7%
1. Focus on drug abuse enforcement, preventing drug related violence in the first place
2. Gradually increase care for mental health patients
3. Strengthen background checks to prevent illegal gun sales
4. Semi automatic weapons:
5. Improve socioeconomic status through education, prevention of crime
1. Focus on drug abuse enforcement, preventing drug related violence in the first place
2. Gradually increase care for mental health patients
3. Strengthen background checks to prevent illegal gun sales
4. Semi automatic weapons:
a. registration
b. training class
5. Improve socioeconomic status through education, prevention of crime
Friday, January 25, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Violence Reduction Proposal
https://docs.google.com/a/battlegroundps.org/document/d/1_R15WVTVRmjnQc2OmrV1iLe1uBR3pW43siTbZJMwm6I/edit
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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 | First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws
Findings from the Task Force on Community Preventive Services
Prepared byRobert A. Hahn, Ph.D.1 Oleg O. Bilukha, M.D., Ph.D.1 Alex Crosby, M.D.2 Mindy Thompson Fullilove, M.D.3 Akiva Liberman, Ph.D.4 Eve K. Moscicki, Sc.D.5 Susan Snyder, Ph.D.1 Farris Tuma, Sc.D.5 Peter Briss, M.D.1 1Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods Epidemiology Program Office 2Division of Violence Prevention National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC Atlanta, Georgia 3New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University New York, New York 4National Institute of Justice U.S. Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 5National Institute of Mental Health National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland The material in this report was prepared by the Epidemiology Program Office, Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., Director; Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, Richard E. Dixon, M.D., Director.
Summary
During 2000--2002, the Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force), an independent nonfederal task force, conducted a systematic review of scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of firearms laws in preventing violence, including violent crimes, suicide, and unintentional injury. The following laws were evaluated: bans on specified firearms or ammunition, restrictions on firearm acquisition, waiting periods for firearm acquisition, firearm registration and licensing of firearm owners, "shall issue" concealed weapon carry laws, child access prevention laws, zero tolerance laws for firearms in schools, and combinations of firearms laws. The Task Force found insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws or combinations of laws reviewed on violent outcomes. (Note that insufficient evidence to determine effectiveness should not be interpreted as evidence of ineffectiveness.) This report briefly describes how the reviews were conducted, summarizes the Task Force findings, and provides information regarding needs for future research.BackgroundAlthough firearms-related* injuries in the United States have declined since 1993, they remained the second leading cause of injury mortality in 2000, the most recent year for which complete data are available (1). Of 28,663 firearms-related deaths in 2000 --- an average of 79 per day---16,586 (57.9%) were suicides, 10,801 (37.7%) were homicides, 776 (2.7%) were unintentional, and an additional 500 (1.7%) were legal interventions or of undetermined intent.An estimated 24.3% of the 1,430,693 violent crimes (murder, aggravated assault, rape, and robbery) committed in the United States in 1999 were committed with a firearm (2). In the early 1990s, rates of firearms-related homicide, suicide, and unintentional death in the United States exceeded those of 25 other high-income nations (i.e., 1992 gross national product US $8,356 per capita) for which data are available (3). In 1994, the estimated lifetime medical cost of all firearms injuries in the United States was $2.3 billion (4). Approximately 4.5 million new firearms are sold each year in the United States, including 2 million handguns. In addition, estimates of annual secondhand firearms transactions (i.e., sales, trades, or gifts) range from 2 million to 4.5 million (5,6). Further, an estimated 0.5 million firearms are stolen annually (6). Thus, the total number of firearms transactions could be as high as 9.5 million per year. The 1994 National Survey of the Private Ownership of Firearms (NSPOF), conducted by Chilton Research Services for the Police Foundation, under sponsorship of the National Institute of Justice, indicated that American adults owned approximately 192 million working firearms, an average of one per adult (7). The NSPOF also indicated that firearm ownership was unevenly distributed in the population: only 24.6% of U.S. adults owned a firearm (41.8% of men and 9.0% of women). Another survey (2) found that 41% of adult respondents reported having a firearm in their home in 1994, and 35% did so in 1998. A third survey (8) reported that 35% of homes with children aged <18 years had at least one firearm. Rates of firearm ownership in the United States also exceed those of 14 other nations for which data are available, with the exception of Finland (9). Of the estimated 192 million firearms owned in the United States at the time of the 1994 NSPOF survey, 65 million were handguns; 70 million, rifles; 49 million, shotguns; and the remainder were other guns (7). Among handgun owners, 34.0% kept their guns loaded and unlocked. An estimated 10 million handguns, one sixth of the handguns owned, were regularly carried by their owners, approximately half in the owners' cars and the other half on the owners' persons. The manufacture, distribution, sale, acquisition, storage, transportation, carrying, and use of firearms in the United States are regulated by a complex array of federal, state, and local laws and regulations. This review examines firearms laws as one of many approaches to reducing firearms violence (10,11). |
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Martin Luther King Jr. Video Q's
1.What do you admire most about Dr. King?
2. Do you think MLK should have
spoken out on the Vietnam War? Why/why not?
3.Do you agree with Dr. King’s
message of “special steps” to fix the economic situation for poor blacks in
America? Was/is affirmative action
justified?
4.How successful has Dr. King’s
message about racism been?
5. What was your most significant
take-away from this video?
Rotary Club Fundraiser!
Rotary Club Fundraiser
The Rotary Club of Hood River presents Rotary Night at Mt. Hood Meadows to generate funds for the scholarship program.
Request the day off, arrange for car-pooling, and go ski your heart out for just $10, and for a good cause. This is the major fundraiser for the Hood River Rotary's community service projects. The $10 pass is available in advance through the Hood River Rotary Club or can be purchased online now.NOTE: This is a special fundraiser that requires the special Rotary night pass in order to ride lifts after the normal 4 PM operating schedule. Season pass holders, 10 Time Pass holders and other pre-purchased Meadows passes are valid Monday, January 21 from normal lift scheduled opening times through 4 PM. If you want to board lifts after 4 PM, you'll be able to purchase the special Rotary pass and support the fundraiser.