Dems to reframe gun violence as public health issue

[DonViejo]

BY NATHANIEL WEIXEL - 12/14/18 06:00 AM EST

House Democrats are planning to vote next year on bills that address gun violence as a public health concern, marking the party's first steps back into a divisive debate after being in the minority for eight years.

Energized by their midterm victories and a focus on gunshot victims highlighted by a growing chorus of medical professionals, Democrats say they will push for legislation to fund research on gun injuries and deaths.

Making gun violence a public health issue is seen as unlikely to cause divisions between liberal and centrist Democrats, some of whom are wary about moving too far to the left ahead of their 2020 reelection bids.

But with a divided Congress starting in January, Democratic leaders will have to tamp down expectations for achieving gun-related legislative goals of any kind since their bills will be landing in a GOP-led Senate.

Most legislation around gun violence was off the table for eight years of Republican rule in the House, as GOP leaders sided with the powerful gun lobby against any new firearm restrictions, including federal funding for research.

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https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/421335-dems-to-reframe-gun-violence-as-public-health-issue

[Wounded Bear]

1. Make the Russian Repubs vote against it...

put them on record. Dems have been far to willing to let the Repubs slide on what they oppose.

Start running on how Repubs want to cash in on SS, kill MediCare, and all of the things they have been doing to dismantle Obamacare. Point out their job-killing support for supply side economics, which does nothing but shift money upwards to the haves.