Dr. Tom Kottke
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first heard Jan 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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Go ahead. Stan, I'm going to give you the script, but Kathleen actually did a great job on that. But the idea that from a public health perspective, if 40% of people own guns, okay, I think sitting here, I don't own one. Stan, I know you don't own one. I'm you know, not going to ask everybody, but if you don't own one, it's highly likely that people that you know...
uh you know own a gun own a gun and so you know just from from that perspective um getting put off by what do you mean you know do i want a gun but i think it's the idea that the focus isn't that you own a gun it's that it's securely stored um and and the other the piece i wanted to bring in the the problem from a suicide perspective is that Gunshots are highly lethal.
And so suicide attempts using guns oftentimes are very successful. And that's part of the issue. I mean, there's other ways that people do attempt suicide, but many of them you have time. and you could save the person. And oftentimes, it was depression or whatever the ideology of that is.
But that's the thing to me is that the lethality, how lethal gunshot wounds are, not only for suicide, but also accidentally killing somebody, just make it critically important. And you know, I'm going to, you know, the other thing is we could say, well, I just listened to this great show on health chatter about firearm safety.
And yeah, I'm going to ask my, ask my friends that, you know, about it just to, you know, just to hear. And I would imagine that this is even more, even more critical if you have
little kid you know if you have young children going around although oftentimes it's older older adults aunts uncles uh grandparents who are minding the kids um and so i think uh no pun intended here everybody's fair game on gun you know for for secure firearm storage um because it is ubiquitin forty percent of the population
own own firearms but it's it is like an accident waiting to happen isn't it so if we don't do something and i like even in our beginning conversation here um that this isn't a hard uh bar to get over to start to start the conversation it's not accusatory it's not judging people It's about practices.
And I say we have car seats, bicycle helmets, you know, is another one that, you know, that has that has changed. So I think we have a good way to get some traction here.
95% of gun owners are responsible gun owners. I'm going to have to make, and actually I'm getting into proactivity here and just an idea to hear what some of the experts will say. I'd have to assume that gun owners probably would hear a message differently from another gun owner than they would from, let's say, Stan or me. We're not gun owners going out and telling people about gun safety.
Not that we shouldn't do that. So my question is, because so many people do own guns, I'd like to know two things. If there have been any community efforts to recruit gun owners to be sort of like, I'll call them like ambassadors or volunteers, for polling with him on their block, their neighborhood.
And the reason why I ask that is there was an effort a couple of years ago about storm drains, because they get all muddied up with leaves and twigs and stuff like that. So our neighborhood association sent out a thing who would like to volunteer to own one storm. You could sign up for a storm drain.
And every month or so or every few weeks, you know, it's near your house and they send you a bag and a shovel and you could, you know, scoop it up. And then quarterly, you just report back. And so, of course, then it gets to be a little contagious. So I signed up with one. And I put these little signs out. And then my neighbor across the street said, well, wait, what are you doing there?
I said, well, you know, I signed up for storm drains. Matter of fact, there's one across the street. Maybe you want to sign up for that. Oh, yeah, they did that. So I'm wondering if there's, because so many gun owners are responsible, aren't they a prime community resource to really be able to get the message out on a neighbor-to-neighbor basis? And if you agree with that...
Can you tell me if there have been any efforts that have shown ways to get that community involvement in that educational piece?
I just did easy math, Kathleen. I took the 5% resistors. I just subtracted that from the 100%. And again, you could still be a responsible gun owner in... and do what I say, not what I do, but that would be more amenable, that they're not going to totally resist. Sure.
No, I didn't mean that they were practicing that way, but they might be amenable.
Thank you. First, Dr. Amy Lansky. Amy serves as the director of the Community Guide Program. On your browser, that's thecommunityguide.org. You can sign on and follow as you follow the podcast. The program is at the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Office of Science, Amy's responsibilities include supporting the Community Preventive Services Task Force.
And Dr. Alison Quayar, Alison Evans Quayar is a professor and associate dean of research in the College of Public Health at George Mason University. She's a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She currently chairs the Community Preventive Services Task Force. Back to you, Stan.
Yeah, thanks for asking, Stan. I'm gonna talk about parks and trails, greenways with additional support. Okay, so we in St. Paul, I live in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the mayor proposed a little pittance of a sales tax to improve our parks and trails. And so I was able to write a letter to the editor
and say and write that the rigorous evidence shows that parks and trails with additional support increase physical activity. And we all know that physical activity prevents multiple diseases, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, et cetera, et cetera, obesity. And so that let me do that. The other example I'm going to give is community health workers. I'm working with a group from Rondo.
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