CDC Official Indicates Planting More Trees is a Way to Fight Gun Violence

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CDC Official Indicates Planting More Trees is a Way to Fight Gun Violence

AWR Hawkins 10 May 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Debra Houry, director of CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, suggests that planting more trees can reduce gun violence.

The Hill reports that Houry indicates “initiatives like restoring vacant lots by planting trees and grass have been shown to reduce firearm violence.”

WXOW quoted Houry describing her tree-planting approach as a “greening initiative.” She said, “We’ve also funded research around greening initiatives to where you can go in and make a vacant lot look better by planting grass and trees. That’s been shown to reduce firearm assaults by up to 29% in impoverished areas.”

Houry’s observations on gun violence come in response to a CDC study showing a rise in firearm homicides during 2020, which was the first year of the coronavirus pandemic and related coronavirus lockdowns.

The Hill notes the CDC study shows that firearm homicides were especially prevalent among black boys and young men “between the ages of 10-24.” The rate of firearm homicides for that group was “21.6 times higher than white males of the same age.”

No mention was made of any relation between that age and possible gang affiliation. The Hill states pointedly, “The study did not reach any conclusions about the reasons for increasing rates of gun violence.” However, more gun control and other efforts, including planting of trees and grass, were discussed as a response.

CDC director Rochelle Walensky put out a statement saying, “The tragic and historic increase in firearm homicide and the persistently high rates of firearm suicide underscore the urgent need for action to reduce firearm-related injuries and deaths.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/05/10/cdc-official-indicates-planting-more-trees-is-a-way-to-fight-gun-violence/

[Smokin Joe]

About the only way I see that working is to use the perpetrators for fertilizer.

[Kamaji]

Well, if you have a lot of trees around, then it becomes harder for the shooters to hit their targets because the extra trees get in the way.

[Smokin Joe]

Well, if you have a lot of trees around, then it becomes harder for the shooters to hit their targets because the extra trees get in the way.

That's a really forward looking solution, though. It will be decades before some of the folks in those affected neighborhoods will be able to hide behind those saplings, and some of them won't fit at all.

[Kamaji]

That's a really forward looking solution, though. It will be decades before some of the folks in those affected neighborhoods will be able to hide behind those saplings, and some of them won't fit at all.

That's where you make up for it in volume - plant a bunch of saplings very close together, and by the time they've grown up, the constant shooting will have thinned the ranks so each adult tree has enough room to grow!