[gun-fucious]

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May 14, 2003


Johns Hopkins Gun Center Announces New Resources on the Value of Litigation

Press Release
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy

Contact:
Nancy Lord Lewin
Phone: 410-614-3243

The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research announces the release of two publications: Litigation is an Important Tool for Injury and Gun Violence Prevention and Myths and Facts: Lawsuits Brought by Cities or Injured Persons Against the Gun Industry (both are pdf files). The two new factsheets provide clear and concise information on the role of litigation against the gun industry as a critical public health tool at a time when such efforts are threatened by pending federal legislation that seeks to protect the gun industry from lawsuits (bills H.R.1036 and S.659).

While litigation is not a new strategy for reforming industry practices to protect public health and safety, the emergence of its application to gun violence prevention efforts is more recent. Since 1998, over 30 cities and counties, as well as a number of individuals, have brought lawsuits against the gun industry. Several of these lawsuits have survived subsequent court challenges. These suits aim to spark reforms in the ways the gun industry designs and sells it products, and to secure compensation for gun violence victims or their families.

Litigation is an Important Tool for Injury and Gun Violence Prevention examines the history and policy-related justification for gun lawsuits. Myths and Facts: Lawsuits Brought by Cities or Injured Persons Against the Gun Industry describes and deconstructs the many myths about gun litigation and the "immunity" legislation, and counters each myth with relevant facts.

These new publications and additional resources are available for download on the Center's website at www.jhsph.edu/gunpolicy. Printed copies are available by contacting the Center at (410) 614-3243 or jhcgpr@jhsph.edu.

[Standing Wolf]

While litigation is not a new strategy for reforming industry practices to protect public health and safety...

Since the leftist extremists can't abolish the Second Amendment or win in state legislatures, they're falling back on the courts. They're losing there, too.

[UnknownSailor]

I'm sure that doctors don't want gun owners setting broken bones, so I submit that doctors shouldn't be trying to make policy regarding firearms.

[fallingblock]

While I totally agree with you about doctors not formulating firearms policy....
Most of the blowhards at J.H.C.G.P.R. are not medical doctors-
Just a bunch of so-called "public health" donks such as New Zealand's Philip Alpers.

They gain their authority by saying they are interested in the issue and publishing some "results-oriented trash" to support their pre-conceived disdain for firearms in the hands of the public.:barf: :barf:

[c_yeager]

The funny part is that REAL doctors are subject to some of the most absurd lawsuits in the world. if these guys were actual practicing physicians i think they would be singing a different tune of the "value" of litigation.

[Peter Gun]

The funy thing is that this is Johns hopkins of BALTIMORE! Have you been to the main auditorium building? Armed guards all over, because its smack in the middle of one of the most dangerous places in Baltimore. But as long as only guards have guns, thats OK.