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NATION The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com Thursday, November 22, 2018 5A Twitter war: Doctors, NRA clash over gun deaths Glenda O’Neal, mother of Dr. Tamara O’Neal, shows a photo of her family at their home in LaPorte, Ind., Tuesday, Nov. 20. Dr. Tamara was one of the three people fatally shot Monday at Mercy Hospital, a Chicago hospital. BY LISA MARIE PANE Associated Press The photos from doctors came quickly and in succes sion: blood-stained operating rooms, blood-covered scrubs and shoes, bullets piercing body parts and organs. The pictures on Twitter were an emotional response to a smackdown by the pow erful gun industry lobby, which took issue with the American College of Physi cians’ call late last month for tighter gun control laws. The recommendations included bans on “assault weapons,” large capacity magazines and 3D-printed firearms. “Someone should tell self- important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are push ing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the med ical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves,” the National Rifle Association tweeted. Physicians across the United States seized on the phrasing, taking to Twitter with 22,000 comments and the hashtags #thisismylane and #thisisourlane, posting photos of their encounters with gun violence and offer ing their own personal sto ries of treating such wounds. The debate gained new urgency this week with the shooting death of an emergency room doctor outside the hospital where she worked, as physicians argue shootings are a public health crisis that they must play a key role in trying to stem. Dr. Tamara O’Neal was killed Monday outside a hospital in Chicago in what police say was a dispute with her ex-fiance. The shooter and two other people — a responding police officer and a resident in the hospi tal’s pharmacy — also died. “It just shows that not only is this is in our lane, but this happens to us,” said Dr. Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore who as a 17-year-old was shot in the throat by a stray bullet fired during a dispute at a high school football game. Sakran created a Twitter account @ThisIsOurLane which in just two weeks has attracted nearly 15,000 fol lowers. They include Dr. Peter Masiakos, a pediat ric trauma surgeon in Bos ton, who wrote “The Quiet Room” just hours after the mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, about breaking the news that a loved one has died. “We need to start talk ing about this as a public health issue. Politics aside, we have a problem that no other country has, and we shouldn’t,” Masiakos said. About 35,000 people each year are killed by guns in the United States, and about two- thirds are suicides. That’s about 670 people per week and among the largest num ber of civilian gun deaths in ZBIGNIEW BZDAK I Associated Press the world. The world’s highest rate of gun deaths is in El Salva dor with a rate of 72.5 per 100,00; the rate in the U.S. is 3.1 per 100,000. Among all European countries, the rate never breaks 1 gun death per 100,000, accord ing to Small Arms Survey, a Switzerland-based research organization that examines firearms and violence. “These are not just sta tistics. These are people, mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters that are being killed,” Sakran said. “The worst part of my job is having to go out and talk to these families and to tell them that their loved one is never coming home.” It’s not the first time medi cal professionals have taken on powerful industries: auto companies over seat belts, Big Tobacco over cigarettes and toys that posed chok ing hazards. It’s also not the first time that the gun lobby has pushed back against the medical community or researchers it considers to be biased. In the 1990s, Congress barred the Centers for Dis ease Control from conduct ing research that advocated or pushed for gun control; while it didn’t ban research from being conducted, it did have a chilling effect. More recently, the NRA backed legislation in Florida — eventually overturned in court — that would have barred doctors from asking patients about guns in the home. Prosecuting Indian Country crimes plateaus in recent years ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The U.S. Justice Depart ment’s track record for prosecuting Indian Country crimes has not significantly changed in recent years, even amid programs and attempts to boost both pub lic safety and prosecutions on tribal lands, according to federal figures released Wednesday. In an annual report pre pared for Congress, the department’s statistics showed U.S. attorneys’ offices declined to prosecute 37 percent of Indian Country cases they deemed resolved in 2017, usually citing insuf ficient evidence. The per centage of cases dropped by prosecutors or sent to other courts was up three points from 2016. The report on prosecution rates marks the first since a government watchdog report from the Office of Inspector General last year issued a critical analysis of U.S. attorneys’ prosecution of Indian Country cases. It cited data that must be col lected under a 2010 law for the annual reports on inves tigations and prosecutions. The report also comes amid heightened concerns in Congress and tribal com munities over crimes against Native American women, who are disproportionately victimized by sexual assault and domestic assault. Dartmouth sued after professor misconduct allegations CONCORD, N.H. - Dart mouth College was sued Thursday for allegedly allowing three professors to create a culture in their department that encour aged drunken parties and subjected female students to harassment, groping and sexual assault. Seven women filed the lawsuit in federal court in New Hampshire against the elite college’s trustees. It contends that profes sors William Kelley, Paul Whalen and Todd Heather- ton harassed and touched women inappropriately, often while out partying at bars or at their homes where one hosted hot tub parties. 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