Testimony during a committee hearing on gun bills devolved to racially charged comments and a mention of the Holocaust. Colorado’s largest gun lobby walked back those comments. via Meghan_Lopez
DENVER — Gun reform bills are debated by state lawmakers just about every year in the Colorado legislature. This year is no exception.On Monday, two of those bills were debated in committee. One would expand immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability for gun owners who use physical force in their business to protect themselves against unlawful intruders.
Brown cited a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine that named firearms as the number one leading cause of death among children and adolescents. Jason Goldstick, a statistician and associate professor of emergency medicine at the University of Michigan, was the lead author of the letter that discussed in the committee hearing. He says the data is clear that firearms have overtaken car crashes as the lead cause of death among American youth.
“If you look at the race breakdown, yes, there are massive health disparities here. Black youth are definitely at higher risk than non-Hispanic white or Hispanic white, or Native American ,” Goldstick said. “The public health approach can certainly decrease injury rates, and there's no reason why you can't do the same thing with firearms. There's a lot of ways to do that without doing, without having gun control,” he said.Meanwhile, on Wednesday, state lawmakers in a different committee debated a bill that would give counties the right to ban people from using their firearms in certain unincorporated areas.
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