Americans Might Want To Be Cautious Of The Dominican Republic!

Americans are dying in popular tourist destination. The Caribbean country of the Dominican Republic has been under scrutiny for the deaths of a dozen American tourists. Former MLB player David Ortiz was also shot there.

GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.

Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers. Thoughts and prayers will not bring back the dead or heal the wounded. Hashtags, saying "my heart goes out to", lowering the flag, moments of silence, and street memorials aren't going to bring people back. It's worthless platitudes. They are distractions.

These are distractions from doing something. It's worthless platitudes. Donald J. Trump, Congress and the National Rifle Association are a bunch of lily-livered cowards. They are so scared to do something about gun violence. They believe that changing the status quo is bad.

They continue to enable more gun violence by rolling back legislation, taking money from lobbyists and listening to millionaire agitators in the junk food media. We pay more to bury the dead. Often those killed by gun violence don't have wills and their families are stuck in limbo trying to at least obtain their protected assets. We have to have insurance on vehicles, animals and property. Why can't we have insurance on firearms?

These religious leaders say a few comforting words to a family. Religion isn't stopping this. Whatever you're religion is, it's not stopping gun violence.

David Ortiz, known as Big Papi is being treated for a gunshot to his lower back after he was shot at a bar in the Dominican Republic. The former Boston Red Sox star was in his hometown when he got shot by some terrorist.

Ortiz, 43, left the hospital, the Clinica Abel Gonzalez, in an ambulance Monday. Ortiz will be taken to Massachusetts General Hospital, Kennedy said.

Ortiz was shot in the back Sunday night and "the bullet went through his stomach," Felix Durán Mejia, a spokesman for the national police, told CNN. Kennedy said Ortiz's condition is serious, but he's stable enough to be flown.

Police said Ortiz was shot at a nightclub in his native Santo Domingo. He remains in intensive care after being treated for bleeding in his liver and having portions of his intestines and gall bladder removed, said Leo Lopez, Ortiz's media assistant.

The suspect is being held on robbery and aggravated assault charges. He will face a trial soon. The person is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

He is the latest of a handful of tourists who been either got ill while staying at a resort or robbed while visiting the country.

David Ortiz was shot in the lower back and is undergoing surgery.

CBS News reported that handful of Americans have gotten sick and died while vacationing in the Dominican Republic.

Americans with plans to visit the Dominican Republic are reconsidering their vacations. The deaths include a California man, Robert Wallace, whose family told Fox News he became critically ill in April at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino resort in Punta Cana. They decided to come forward after learning of others recently who died in similar circumstances while vacationing on the island.

Wallace's family says he was in the Dominican Republic for his stepson's wedding. He quickly became sick and died after drinking a scotch from the minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Nearly two months later, his family still doesn't have answers.

We now know of at least five other Americans who have died in the Dominican Republic in the last year -- most recently, Miranda Schaup-Werner and a couple from Maryland, Edward Holmes and Cynthia Day. All three died at Bahia Principe hotels. Preliminary autopsies released by Dominican authorities say they all had fluid in their lungs and respiratory failure. Toxicology reports have not yet been released.

Felecia Nieves' sister Yvette Monique Sport also died at a Bahia Principe resort. She says last year, Monique had a drink at the minibar inside her hotel room, went to bed and never woke up.

"There is something … something dirty at the bottom of all of this," Nieves said. "She was 51 years of age, relatively healthy, no reason for her to go on vacation and just die so suddenly."

CBS News found several other people on social media who claimed they also recently canceled their trips. Bahia Principe says none of the deaths at its resorts was connected, and Miranda Schaup-Werner died of a heart attack. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino said it is confident all operational protocols were followed.

News of this latest death in the Dominican Republic came just after former Red Sox star David Ortiz was gunned down in his hometown of Santo Domingo.

The country's attorney general told local media after the shooting of Ortiz that the Dominican Republic is "secure, but definitely has many challenges." The tourism minister basically says the deaths are just coincidences.

On its travel advisory alerts, the U.S. State Department rates the Dominican Republic a level two out of four – urging visitors to "exercise increased caution."

CBS News has confirmed that investigators in the Dominican Republic are relying on FBI labs to examine the toxicology results for the three people who died in May. Multiple sources now confirm that the results are being tested in the FBI's Quantico Virginia labs. So far, sources tell CBS News, FBI assistance has been limited to examining the toxicology results.

Trump is going to eventually place the Dominican Republic on a list of countries that could be barred from travel. He has implicated travel restrictions to Cuba, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela, Somalia, Chad, Yemen and Myanmar (Burma).