The most violent profession in the US is healthcare

[Lemon Drop]

Another deadly attack on hospital workers, leaves a brave young police officer dead.


https://apnews.com/article/york-pennsylv...247c722df4

"The shooting is part of a wave of gun violence in recent years that has swept through U.S. hospitals and medical centers, which have struggled to adapt to the growing threats. Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation’s most violent fields, with workers suffering more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

[Spock]

Shame it isn't health insurance CEO's .... Oh wait ...

[Wags]

Yup. All our hospitals have bad ass armed security guards and metal detectors. Less than a year ago one of them got killed trying to help a patient whose ersatz boyfriend had managed to get in with a gun. Terrible. Violent mental illness is rampant. Media and politicians are mostly responsible.

[Lemon Drop]

Wags wrote:
Yup. All our hospitals have bad ass armed security guards and metal detectors. Less than a year ago one of them got killed trying to help a patient whose ersatz boyfriend had managed to get in with a gun. Terrible. Violent mental illness is rampant. Media and politicians are mostly responsible.

Guns are rampant, making emotional responses more likely to have deadly consequences.

People with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

We have the same amount of "mental illness" as other countries, yet our gun violence problem is quite unique.

Politicians who won't pass common sense gun laws and the people who vote for them ARE to blame, not sure what media does except describe the problem.

[macphanatic]

Lemon Drop wrote:
[quote=Wags]
Yup. All our hospitals have bad ass armed security guards and metal detectors. Less than a year ago one of them got killed trying to help a patient whose ersatz boyfriend had managed to get in with a gun. Terrible. Violent mental illness is rampant. Media and politicians are mostly responsible.

Guns are rampant, making emotional responses more likely to have deadly consequences.

People with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators.

We have the same amount of "mental illness" as other countries, yet our gun violence problem is quite unique.

Politicians who won't pass common sense gun laws and the people who vote for them ARE to blame, not sure what media does except describe the problem.
We don't prosecute the gun laws we have. People who traffic guns are given plea bargain deals. It happened just the other week in the Philly metro area. Person got like 5 years for trafficking guns.

[pdq]

macphanatic wrote:

We don't prosecute the gun laws we have. People who traffic guns are given plea bargain deals. It happened just the other week in the Philly metro area. Person got like 5 years for trafficking guns.

Five years in the pen is hardly a slap on the wrist. Should we kill them instead?

Alternately, we could work toward the gun laws of the rest of the developed world (where the gun death rate is 1/10th our or less) and address the source of the problem.

[macphanatic]

pdq wrote:
[quote=macphanatic]

We don't prosecute the gun laws we have. People who traffic guns are given plea bargain deals. It happened just the other week in the Philly metro area. Person got like 5 years for trafficking guns.

Five years in the pen is hardly a slap on the wrist. Should we kill them instead?

Alternately, we could work toward the gun laws of the rest of the developed world (where the gun death rate is 1/10th our or less) and address the source of the problem.
They sold a slew of illegal guns to lots of people who weren’t eligible to buy guns. Person isn’t going to federal prison and they probably won’t spend 5 years there. They should definitely get more than 5.

Edit: IMO they should get at least 1 year for gun they sold illegally.