Johns Hopkins launches online course to educate young activists on "gun violence"

[DispositionMatrix]

Free Gun Violence Prevention Course Launches To Educate Young Activists

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are hoping to capitalize on the student-led gun safety movement by offering a free online course, which begins Monday, to teach the academic research and strategies they say are the best weapon to curb gun violence.

Gun violence experts put the course together after hundreds of thousands of people – many of them students – rallied at the March For Our Lives last year calling for tighter gun laws.

"Following the shooting in Parkland and the youth advocacy that we saw, we noticed there was a gap in knowledge," said Cassandra Crifasi the deputy director of the Center for Gun Policy and Research and one of the core lecturers for the online course. It's called Reducing Gun Violence in America: Evidence For Change.

 

[deerdad]

Actual gun safety or try to ban? I didn't click on the link.

Greg

 

[mike1960]

We should all sign up

 

[drgrant]

It's anti bullshit, anything where "gun violence experts" are involved, is anti gun bullshit. There is no such thing as "gun violence" it's a term largely only used by
antis.

IIRC shitberg is a big JHU supporter so this doesn't surprise me.

-Mike

 

[Prepper]

So this course must tell you things like assume gun is loaded, keep pointed in safe direction, don't touch trigger until you are ready to fire, and don't shoot people who don't need shooting?

 

[Prepper]

I avoid gun violence by staying out of Baltimore.

 

[DarthT15]

>She points to a stark statistic from the Center for Disease Control that showed that nearly 40,000 people were fatally shot in 2017.

Are you going to mention more than half were suicides, gang violence and accidents? Because when you adjust for those, the number drops drastically to around 6k, which is 0.00181161956% of the total US Population.

 

[SpaceCritter]

>She points to a stark statistic from the Center for Disease Control that showed that nearly 40,000 people were fatally shot in 2017.

Are you going to mention more than half were suicides, gang violence and accidents? Because when you adjust for those, the number drops drastically to around 6k, which is 0.00181161956% of the total US Population.

Meanwhile:

A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine says medical errors should rank as the third leading cause of death in the United States — and highlights how shortcomings in tracking vital statistics may hinder research and keep the problem out of the public eye.

The authors, led by Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Martin Makary, call for changes in death certificates to better tabulate fatal lapses in care. In an open letter, they urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to immediately add medical errors to its annual list reporting the top causes of death.

Based on an analysis of prior research, the Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. On the CDC's official list, that would rank just behind heart disease and cancer, which each took about 600,000 lives in 2014, and in front of respiratory disease, which caused about 150,000 deaths.

Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths, Researchers Say

Speaking of eyes, what's that saying again about the plank in one's own?