On December 16, 2019, Congress reached a deal to provide $25 million in funding to federal agencies studying gun violence. This deal marks the first time Congress is funding firearm violence research in over 20 years. SAFE joined Giffords and Representative Jackie Speier to fight hard for this funding at the US Capitol this past June. We are thrilled that Congress agrees it is time to research gun violence and implement evidence based strategies to save lives.
Scrubs Addressing the Firearm Epidemic-SAFE is proud to be one of the medical organizations partnering with Giffords to reduce gun violence. We are so grateful for Gabby’s courage and leadership!
Dr. Susie MacLean and Former Representative Gabby Giffords
Giffords.org: This past weekend, El Paso and Dayton were the latest American communities torn apart by gun violence. We know that these mass shootings, as well as every day gun violence, are widespread public safety issues. All Americans deserve to live without fear. We cannot let these tragedies become normalized.
On June 11th, doctors, nurses, students and other healthcare providers, gun owners and non gun owners, Democrats, Republicans and Independents held a press conference outside the Capitol Building in order to push Congress to advance Firearms Injury Prevention Research. Watch the live video here.
Congresswoman Jackie Speier (CA-14)
Dr. Dean Winslow, SAFE Director; Stanford Professor of Medicine; Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel
Dr. Roger A. Mitchell Jr., Washington D.C. Chief Medical Examiner; George Washington University Clinical Professor of Pathology; Howard University Professor of Surgery
Dr. Joseph Sakran, Gun Violence Survivor; John Hopkins Hospital Assistant Professor Surgery, Director of Emergency General Surgery, and Associate Chief of the Division of Acute Care Surgery
Richard Hamburg, Safe States Alliance Executive Director
Dr. Abbie Guttennberg Youkilis, Gun Violence Survivor; Internal Medicine Specialist
Dr. Alex Grossman, UCLA Emergency Medical Resident
Along with hundreds of doctors, nurses, students and other healthcare providers; gun owners and non gun owners; Democrats, Republicans and Independents.
Last year close to 40,000 Americans, including more than 3000 children, died from firearms injuries.
These deaths don’t happen at random. We know we can prevent gun injuries through public health research and action. Lobbyists and special interest groups in Washington are pressuring lawmakers to quash bills supporting research to protect our patients from preventable injury and death.
April, 2019 — Will Dewispelaere, University of Colorado School of Medicine
This February medical students in Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE) chapters across the country met with local Stop the Bleed educators to learn proper bleeding control techniques. These meetings took place as many students push for integration of bleeding control teaching into introductory medical school courses.
