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26 Dec 2018
The NRA made the Ebola crisis worse by lobbying against the nomination of a Surgeon General who viewed guns as a public health crisis, leaving the country without a top doctor to reassure the public.

However, in 2014, when the Ebola crisis was heating up, we didn't have a Surgeon General and hadn't for about a year. In November, Oh, because he was anti-gun! Yes, I remember that! He believed that guns were a public health crisis, and thus the NRA lobbied strongly against his nomination. In a time of public anxiety about a potential outbreak, we didn't have a top doctor in office. And literally the only reason is that he believed that guns led to health problems. And the NRA found that position unacceptable. The NRA didn't bring Ebola in or anything like that. But no matter how you slice this, by depriving the country of a Surgeon General because of their lobbying in Congress through the Republican Party, they absolutely made the Ebola crisis worse.