I signify the pediatric crucial care physicians at Maine Medical Heart in Portland. We care for severely unwell and injured youngsters. It’s an usually heart-rending and tragic position. We’re very involved about latest nationwide and native gun violence and threats of gun violence. Gun violence is now the main reason for demise of youngsters in the US.
Maine has lately enacted a number of legal guidelines to cut back gun violence. There’s extra work to do and all of us have a component. The CDC is researching methods to stop gun violence. We have to proceed to fund these efforts. We have to contact our elected officers and urge them to fund analysis and to enact evidence-based legal guidelines which have confirmed efficient at decreasing gun violence. We have to report people who could also be a hazard to themselves or others on account of psychological well being crises. This may result in a forensic analysis as a part of Maine’s “yellow flag” legislation. We have to retailer our weapons safely; unloaded and locked and with ammunition locked individually. We have to ask about weapons within the properties of family and friends.
Our youngsters need to develop up secure from gun violence and it’s our obligation to make sure this. We’ll proceed to do our half within the intensive care unit. We’ll combat to save lots of lives and to ease struggling. We’ll stand with you as you grieve. Please do your half to stop gun violence.
Dr. Kristine Pleacher
Portland
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