Days after the nation’s deadliest mass shooting, the American Medical Association voted for the first time Tuesday to declare gun violence as a “public health crisis.”
The near-unanimous vote, though mostly symbolic, is a significant step that will push the powerful doctors group into a fierce political battle with Second Amendment supporters who have long argued that gun-related violence is no different than other violent acts.
It’s the first time the AMA’s policy-making arm has called the epidemic a “public health crisis” – the same language that sparked controversy in 2014 and nearly blocked U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy from his Senate confirmation.
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