Word ‘Gun’ Missing From Child Health Report Sends Some Screaming

Looking around at children today, it’s fair to say that kids aren’t as healthy as they could be. While my generation spent tons of time outside, running around while eating regular, home-cooked food most of the time, that’s not the norm these days. Between video games and cell phones, along with Karens calling the police every time there’s a kid outside without an adult hovering just inches away, our children aren’t getting the outside time we did.

So, RFK’s Department of Health and Human Services released a report on making children healthy again.

While a lot of people had concerns about RFK in the role, including yours truly, the report touches on some things that sure should be common sense enough to warrant inclusion.

And it seems few have an issue with what’s in there.

They’re upset because of what’s not included.

The recently released Make Our Children Healthy Again report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should be required reading for parents of all types.

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Unfortunately, rather than praising Kennedy, his team and their months of hard work, the anti-gunners and their media accomplices were incredibly displeased over one issue: Nowhere within its 20 pages does Kennedy’s report include the word “gun.”

“Kennedy commission child health report ignores gun violence, the leading cause of child death,” screamed a story published Tuesday by Los Angeles Times staff writer Corinne Purtill.

“Absent from the document was any mention of guns, the leading cause of death for people under the age of 18,” Purtill wrote. “Firearms have been the leading cause of death for children ages 1 to 17 every year since 2022.”

As “proof,” Purtill links to a 2022 study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions. Suffice it to say this report, like most of the anti-gun publications the Center has published, was debunked years ago.

As you can imagine, the young reporter then turns to a stable of so-called experts to help support her faulty theory.

Purtill turned first to Bruce Mirkin, who according to his LinkedIn page, works parttime as a ” Writer, Media Relations Consultant, Maker of Trouble.”

“If you’re putting out a report that’s supposed to address how to help our children stay healthier, and you’re not even mentioning the No. 1 cause of childhood deaths, you ought to be embarrassed,” Purtill quoted Mirkin as saying.

She never mentioned that Mirkin’s nonprofit has only existed for 10 months, or that his degree from Pomona College obtained in 1978 was a BA in theater. He has no science background whatsoever, which forced Mirkin to admit his error on LinkedIn.

“I usually avoid being spokesperson for Defend Public Health, preferring to defer to our science and medical folks, but today I had to step into the breach to give a comment for this excellent L.A. Times article,” Mirkin was forced to post.

Honestly, the so-called experts don’t stop there. Go and see for yourself.

The truth of the matter is that even if the statistics were unassailable, guns are a very different issue. Sure, saying that people should keep their guns secured when not in use wouldn’t be a huge issue, and likely address at least some of those supposed child gun-deaths that include a suspicious number of legal adults most of the time, but that’s not what the report was supposed to be about. Especially as these aren’t accidents, but intentional actions by third parties that parents generally can’t do anything about.

Why include something that parents can’t address? What good would that actually do?

The so-called experts simply want the government to browbeat the American people into accepting gun control, and they’re upset that this administration isn’t playing the game.

So-called gun violence is a problem, and yes, far too many of our children are paying for it. However, the issue isn’t guns. It isn’t on parents to do different things beyond basic security measures. They’re not responsible and are likely already doing everything they can in most cases. 

The issue is violent people in our society and the insane policies that keep them there.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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