Anti-Gun Coalition Wants WHO to Take Gun Control International

President Donald Trump has pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization. Considering what a trainwreck WHO was during the COVID fiasco, I can’t say that I blame him, though a lot of others heavily criticized the move. WHO doesn’t acknowledge the United States’ ability to leave the organization, but since there’s not a lot they can do about anything, I’m not losing sleep over it.

Yet if Trump hadn’t pulled us out of the WHO, it might be a fine time to consider it, at least if the organization listens to a bunch of international anti-gunners who have not just bought into the whole “public health crisis” nonsense, but wants WHO to address it throughout the world.

America’s gun violence crisis isn’t just domestic — U.S.-made guns fuel violence across the globe. But the United States’ innovation in community-based and public health-focused violence prevention efforts has largely stayed within our borders.

On Tuesday, a coalition launched a campaign to change that, asking the World Health Organization to address gun violence.

Coalition members say U.S. efforts to combat gun violence — forged in the absence of federal gun control laws — could inspire new global health policies to reduce violence abroad. State violence intervention offices, surgeon general guidance, and evidence-based programs could serve as models for other countries, said Daniel Semenza, a gun violence researcher at Rutgers University who’s part of the coalition. “We’re trying to take that model of success and move it to a much broader scale,” he said.

Public health programs to address gun violence, like hospital-based violence intervention, aren’t well known outside the U.S., said Dean Peacock, a co-founder of the Global Coalition for WHO Action on Firearm Violence and a public health expert at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. WHO support, Peacock said, could help spread similar efforts worldwide. 

The timing is somewhat ironic. Last month, the Trump administration formally withdrew the U.S. from the WHO. The move delivered a blow to the agency’s funding, but also removed a potential source of political opposition to the effort to focus on guns.

That’s true, opposition will probably be lacking now that the United States wants nothing to do with the same group that pushed lockdowns, mandatory vaccines, and every other jack-booted policy they could think of while knowing full well that it wasn’t as serious a virus as they were making it out to be. Oh, and who also likely knew it came from a Chinese lab and kept pretending it wasn’t any such thing.

So them pretending there’s another so-called public health crisis would be remarkably on-brand for them.

The problem here is that so-called gun violence isn’t the same as cancer, HIV, or even COVID. 

Viruses spread of their own volition, in a way. They infect a host, then seek new hosts to infect. It’s how they perpetuate, but they don’t actually think. They don’t decide who to infect and who to leave alone. That’s left up to a series of circumstances that might as well be called fate.

Violence, including “gun violence,” is different. These are intentional acts carried out by thinking beings who make a decision to hurt people.

What these people never seem to get is that if this is any kind of healthcare issue, it’s a mental health one that resides in the minds of those who carry out these attacks. It’s not the guns, and you can’t treat it like a virus or bacterial infection if you want to accomplish anything. It doesn’t work that way, in the United States or anywhere else in the world.

It remains to be seen if the WHO will listen to these nutbars, but if they do, then Trump couldn’t have left that sinking ship at a better time.

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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