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Publisher’s Note
A Special Thank Publisher’s Note
You to the August
And Still Our Legislatures Equivocate …
2019 Host of the

South Florida In total, there have been at least 2,190 mass Our Inaction Has Been Deafening
shootings since Sandy Hook in December 2012,

Healthcare with at least 2,463 killed and 9,163 wounded. Gun violence is a notoriously American problem – this cannot be
The FBI defines a mass shooting as an incident
disputed (so please don’t try.) And once again, it’s happened right
Networking Group in which 4 or more people, not including the here in our South Florida community, forever affecting our relatives,
suspect, are killed. And following all of these
friends and co-workers. And each time an American massacre
events, our police, healthcare workers and com-
occurs, half-hearted declarations are debated about new bipartisan
munities are left to pick-up the pieces. And in
bills, laws and regulations … ad nauseam. But then the gunshots
many cases, they will endure severe PTSD for
fade, the visible wounds heal, the funerals end … and we all forget.
years afterward as a result.
But I believe this time, thanks to a brilliant, articulate, still-trau-
The following Publisher’s Note was written
matized group of Marjory Stoneman Douglas students, we are all
KENDALL after the Parkland massacre in March 2018 being held accountable. Much like my 60s generation who affected
which hit so close to home here in South
REGIONAL Florida. And after the recent events in El Paso the Vietnam era culture shift, these children are tired of being sacri-
fices to impotent politicians and 2nd amendment scare tactics. Does
and Dayton, I felt it merited another reading by
MEDICAL CENTER all of us. Let’s all honor and support the it make sense to say a person is too young to buy a handgun, but an
Parkland students who continue their journey to AR15 is acceptable? Not one student has even whispered that all
guns should be banned, but rather it’s time for sensible gun control
For information about eliminate needless gun deaths and future mass and effective mental health screening with regard to guns in the
shootings. At the very least,
our next meeting of let’s give their “Peace Plan State of Florida and the United States.
As the students of MSD and #neveragain, asked so eloquently,
SFHNG, for a Safer America” a “How could it hurt
chance.
please email … to ban assault weapons?

charles@ … to reinstitute regulations that make it more difficult for the
Charles Felix mentally ill to obtain guns?
southfloridahospitalnews.com … to save more children and adults like the 17 we lost in
Parkland, Florida?”
Look in the mirror and ask yourself, how could it hurt?

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