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Tue Nov 20, 2018, 09:37 AM Nov 2018

'This Is Our Lane': Doctors Slam NRA After Chicago Hospital Shooting

Four people were killed during a shooting on Monday at Chicago’s Mercy Hospital & Medical Center.

By David Barden 11/20/2018 05:02 am ET

Less than two weeks after the National Rifle Association launched an attack on “self-important anti-gun doctors,” a mass shooting at a Chicago hospital left at least four people dead.

Emergency room doctor Tamara O’Neal, 38, and pharmaceutical assistant Dayna Less, 25, were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman following a domestic dispute at the Mercy Hospital & Medical Center on Monday. Police officer Samuel Jimenez, 28, who recently completed his new hire probationary period, was also slain.

The suspect died at the scene from a gunshot wound, although it is unclear whether it was self-inflicted or from officers.

Earlier this month, the NRA wrote that physicians with a “collective hobby” of “opining on firearms” should “stay in their lane”:




https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doctors-chicago-hospital-shooting_us_5bf37b53e4b01909c808b7f4
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