If anyone is looking for ammunition, I think John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime would refute most or all of the 'facts' in that article.
OJ - that letter was great! The immunization analogy was absolutely brilliant.
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I've been retired for some 15 years now and am not happy with many things in the medical world here today. However, as was mentioned, we, as responsible gun enthusiasts, don't like to be painted with the broad black brush and depicted in the same class as those who misuse guns or are negligent with them. It ill behooves us gunners to paint any group such as doctors with any broad black brush. Many of us dedicated our lives to our patients and their health working long hours, nights, week-ends, and holidays and taking calls 24/7.
The AMA was once a well respected organization among people of all ideologies. Now, it is simply a liberal bastion of nutty ideologues
Doctors do not cure disease. Medical researchers cure disease.Since Polio what have doctors cured?
As for the fact of being more likely to be injured by a firearm in an accident if you have one in the home...that is true. It is also a blatantly misleading and disingenuous use of statistics.The three editors of the prominent medical journal, Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, Stephen Morrissey and Dr. Gregory Curfman, said handguns were far more likely to cause harm than do good.
Some people are agenda driven and do not let facts or logic interfere with their opinions. Give them one piece of misleading information and they will run with it their entire lives.the increase in life span is clearly due to improvements in medical care. I am not sure how you could suggest otherwise.
There are many examples of research being abandoned that came too close to curing diseases that they did not wish to cure but instead were researching maintenance possibilities.
The example that most clearly comes to mind was a report I read several years ago regarding hair loss. A memo from a major pharmecuatical company was leaked where they abandoned a particular test group because the treatment was too "permanent and not requiring continued treatment" and therefore "did not financially support the cost of development."I agree with much of what you say PBP, but I am not so sure about this. Do you have examples?
So claiming the crime there was a drop in the crime rate as caused or correlated with concealed carry isn't valid.
It ill behooves us gunners to paint any group such as doctors with any broad black brush. Many of us dedicated our lives to our patients and their health working long hours, nights, week-ends, and holidays and taking calls 24/7.
For them to suggest that the SCOTUS ruling will cost more lives because responsible citizens living in anti-gun cities will now be able to defend their own homes is crap.
The same as Sarah Brady proclaiming they were going to have to rename Florida the GUNShine State when they passed the nations first shall issue carry law.
So yeah, mark me down as someone else who thinks it is a shame to distort statistics to tell lies about medical professionals. Doctors save lives. Modern medicine saves lives.
Great post, Kathy.
OJ,I agree, essentially, but anti-gun doctors should be painted for what they are--- with a brush far less broad that accurately depicts them as people who use their profession to further they're anti-gun political aims---while not being all that interested in saving lives by cleaning up their own back yards.
For them to suggest that the SCOTUS ruling will cost more lives because responsible citizens living in anti-gun cities will now be able to defend their own homes is crap.
The same as Sarah Brady proclaiming they were going to have to rename Florida the GUNShine State when they passed the nations first shall issue carry law.