Congressman Mark DeSaulnier unveiled his multi-pronged “Not Here” initiative to help local communities implement evidence-based solutions to gun violence.
Specifically, he introduced the Local Gun Violence Reduction Act (H.R. 9227), which would create a local gun violence prevention effort database at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in which state and local governments can enter information and data on policies implemented in their communities that have reduced gun violence for the purpose of sharing these solutions with other states and localities to end the public health crisis of gun violence nationwide.
Currently, no such database exists at the federal level, leaving states and localities without an efficient, reliable means of identifying and implementing proven solutions.
Also part of “Not Here” is the Congressman’s Gun Safety Board and Research Act (H.R. 5273), a bill he introduced to establish a board of experts at the Department of Health and Human Services responsible for conducting research, evaluating federal and state policy proposals, and recommending best practices for reducing firearm deaths.
And you KNOW that the “board of experts” will be handpicked to justify his anti gun agenda. He’s not interested in the facts… maybe I ought to send his emailed responses back to him to remind him of his lies.
For whatever good that’ll do.
“….to establish a board of experts at the Department of Health and Human Services….”, Isn’t an appointed gun expert at DHHS an oxymoron? At the least finding one is like looking for hen’s teeth….not going to happen. Sounds more like new jobs for some politician’s kids or relatives.
Useless comes up with more useless.
I think we could tell him what would work. No need to spend more money.
DeSaulnier “Not Here”
I voted for the other candidate
CELLOPHANE,
The other guy is even more progressive than Mark DeSaulnier, is a member of the Green Party, and believes Washington D.C. is run by shape-shifting reptilian aliens.
“I really believe we need to move to the left and I have a record and I have measurements that I’m proud of in Congress and throughout my career as being progressive,” Marky said. Just what we need more power to a unaccountable government agency. Remember mask mandates, lock downs, school closures. Vote this anti constitutional oaf out of office..
Last I checked, a convicted felon with a gun is a crime. Also using a gun to commit crime is a crime. But, you can walk out of CVS with $900 worth of crap, and it’s okay, because you “need” it.
Vote with your head this time, m’kay. These useless air stealers are ruining America (what is left of it)
multi-pronged? Should read multi-tentacled, as all these legislators stick their tentacles into just about everything. Here we have another cleverly named initiative, instead of what it seems to be, a database to aggregate all different local policies to assist our elected, and unelected “representatives” to massage language in their laws. How about Mark focus on high taxes, high illegal alien intrusion, high corruption within the federal bureaucracies (how much taxpayer provided covid money was grifted?) and the latest, insider type trading within that same bureaucracy?
Leftists need to take your 2nd amendment rights away so that you are unable to resist the tyranny they are bringing.
Did anyone ask Mark for this or is it a solution in search of a problem. What does success look like? Who are the individuals who are underworked right now in each police department who will feed the data to the CDC? And what will their relational database with a cute business intelligence interface do besides give jobs to some programmers? Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown says the shootings are due to lack of economic opportunities and the culture of gang and drug violence. Is that going to be found in a database? How about not having Bill Clinton ship our manufacturing jobs to China a few decades ago. Start with that.
I really doubt none of the “experts” will really BE experts on firearms. How many NRA members will be on the “board of experts”? How many of these “experts” will actually own a gun? How many will even know how to operate, load, clean one? Will any of them know anything about current firearm restrictions or will these Health and Human Services experts just advocate for more firearm bans? Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to answer any of these questions….and just shows how biased this board will be before they ever even meet. What a joke…
Why in heavens’ name does anyone vote for this man? He and the other Democrats are certainly the cause of so much of our troubles. Vote them out, root and branch !!!!
See how easy it was to come up with a workable solution to “gun violence”?
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More government waste—studies, boards of experts, blah blah blah. Mark is just keeping his cronies employed.
Gun Violence
75% (+/- 5-10% depending on year) gun violence deaths are suicides (per FBI stats).
That means 1 in 4 are criminal activities.
Want to reduce Gun Violence?
Start with Mental Health/Suicide Prevention.
Do your research. 20 years ago the terms used were Firearm related Homicides, or Murders. But the numbers didn’t seem that bad, so the anti-gun folks needed to boost the numbers (to create fear) in order to further their agenda. By changing Homicides/Murders to “Violence their bumpers went from 10000 to 40000 a year.
Murder has been a problem way before guns were even invented. This is not a gun problem. The 10 commandments had “Thou stalt not kill” because people have always killed each other unfortunately. If you want to reduce crime how about not releasing criminals back on our streets, and ending no cash bail, and stop feeling sorry for the criminals. Politicians focus on the wrong things consistently and introduce stupid things like this for votes. Stop infringing on people’s right to defend themselves, and lock up the criminals. You may find that crime goes down when you follow those Policys.
Did you guys see that DeSaulnier signed that letter demanding Biden negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine? Talk about stepping in it.