Minnesota Health Care Leaders gathered in the state of Capitol on Thursday to demand that the Tim Walz government is calling a special session to experience a special session in Minneapolis more than a month after the Catholic Church and shooting in the legislation of Weapen’s violence.
Together with doctors who took care of victims of announcement, they called for four measures for weapons control: a ban on weapons in attack style, a ban on high capacity magazines, safe storage laws and the removal of the local chairman law that prohibits cities to introduce local weapons management.
“This is no longer a friendly request from their local doctors,” said Dr. Lisa Mattson, president of the Minnesota Medical Association. “This is a requirement of the tens of thousands of doctors in the entire state who know firearms for what it is: a crisis for public health.”
The doctors present at the Thursday press conference said they are in conversation with legislators, but did not share any details about what legislators tell them why a special session still needs to be called.
Janna Gewirtz O’Brien, President-Elect of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said that she hears ‘a lot of empathy and not much action’.
“I think politics sometimes stand in the way,” she said.
Walz said on Thursday at a non -related news conference that he “is still working”, but not confirmed whether he would call a special session. Negotiations on the parameters of a special session blew publicly on Tuesday and DFL leaders said negotiations have a “clear impasse” with Republican leaders.
DFL leadership has released the public one of their offers, which includes various Republican proposals with regard to school safety and mental health. Although the Republicans have not released their contrafer publicly, Walz said on Thursday that it is “completely missing” of any mention of weapon control.
“If we come back in a special session and tackle what the audience wants clear, we have to discuss the entire spectrum of problems,” he said. “For us to come back and give republicans everything they want, without anything we want, they now act just like Republicans in DC.”
Dr. Trish Valusek, a trauma surgeon in children in Minnesota for children, remembered that he received the morning before the announcement of the announcement.
Valusek said that she previously cared for children with shot wounds, but that it is rare that children of school -going age are shot in the head at 8:30 am, so she had a gut feeling that she would have to do with a mass victim.
“Having five damn shocked children who all arrive in one go, all of whom were as old as my children, one of whom had the same name as one of my children, is very difficult,” she said.
Valusek said that there is a saying in pediatrics that children ‘are not only small adults’, that they have a different physiology and that doctors cannot treat them the same as adults.
“The saying certainly applies to shot wounds,” she said. “It should be clear – children are small, and this can make the injury they are more serious … I really hope that I don’t have to give a more graphic description of what a bullet does to the small body of a child to get the point that it is bad.”
Dr. Tim Kummer, the first doctor on the spot, said he still remembers blood on school uniforms, the appearance in the eyes of the children and the shouting of parents.
Kummer testified on 15 September for the senators of Minnesota about the difference between a gun injury and a gun injury with a 12-year-old girl he treated. He said on Thursday that attack weapons ‘multiplied’ the number of children and small wounds turned into life -threatening.
“For those who say that arms violence is a complicated problem, it is not,” says Kummer, who coordinates medical services for emergency situations at Hennepin Healthcare. “This is a matter of public health and we know how we can tackle public health problems. We follow proof.”
“And the proof of this public health problem is clear: limits access to certain weapons, weapons that, due to design, cause more victims, no less, with more serious injuries, no less than less trauma for everyone who responds and takes care of them,” he added.
The announcement was the celebration of the first mass of the new school year on 27 August when a shooter opened fire through a church window, killing two students and injured 21 people, 18 of them children. The 23-year-old attacker, a former announcement student, died by suicide. No precise motive has been publicly identified by researchers.
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