In January, I wrote this about LifeBridge Health engaging in anti-gun activism. I blasted them, and I stand by every word in that piece, because I’m sick of the healthcare establishment figuring that, because they treat gunshot wounds, they understand the nuances of gun policy. They don’t.
And LifeBridge personified that at the time.
Now, though, it sounds as if they’re trying to step back in their lane a little bit.
LifeBridge Health has launched the Safer Futures Program, a systemwide initiative designed to make firearm safety conversations, education and resources a routine part of health and wellness across the communities it serves.
The program reflects a coordinated, forward-looking approach to gun violence prevention, bringing education, outreach and clinical engagement together to help reduce harm and support safer futures for children, families, caregivers and communities.
“As a health system, it is our mission improve the health of people in communities we serve, which includes safety and wellbeing,” says Adam Rosenberg, vice president of violence intervention and prevention and executive director of Center for Hope. “The Safer Futures Program gives families, caregivers and providers the tools and connections they need to help prevent firearm-related injuries and save lives.”
Good, right?
Well, we’ve got some community education and resources, which I guess is fine. We’ve got gun lock distribution, which is also fine. It makes sure people have access to a device that keeps unauthorized hands from accidentally hurting themselves or someone else, so that’s cool with me, so long as they’re not mandated.
But then they had to go and blow it all to hell.
Building on Previous Advocacy
The Safer Futures Program builds on LifeBridge Health’s 2024-2025 award-winning Stop the Iron Pipeline campaign, which raised awareness about the illegal flow of firearms into Maryland. That effort highlighted how trafficked guns often travel along Interstate 95 from states with weaker gun laws.
Through community advocacy, the campaign helped mobilize public support and contributed to the passage of new legislation aimed at combating illegal gun trafficking in Maryland. The Safer Futures Program expands this work by translating awareness into everyday prevention efforts grounded in clinical care and community engagement.
That’s the advocacy I called them out on in January.
See, the issue is that LifeBridge doesn’t know any more about guns than anyone else. Their standing as a healthcare system doesn’t convey to them any unique knowledge. This is an appeal to authority fallacy at its finest. “Listen to us because we’re doctors and stuff. We know more than you,” only applies to actual healthcare questions.
On the so-called Iron Pipeline, LifeBridge is beating its chest, but as I pointed out last time I wrote about them, Maryland has some pretty strict gun laws, and Baltimore’s history of violent crime tells us those laws didn’t work in the least. As for the states with the so-called lax gun laws, does anyone think pro-gun lawmakers in a completely different state care what people in Maryland think?
Of course not. In the process, though, LifeBridge is doing its part to make sure no one cares what doctors and nurses think.
About anything.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their extreme gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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