Doctors Take on the NRA Over Gun Control
by John Lawrence, November 10, 2018
Now doctors fed up with mass killings are expressing the fact that they are tired of treating victims of gun violence. One doctor said she was tired of pulling bullets out of corpses. The NRA said words to the effect that doctors should tend to their own business and not say anything about a subject - guns - that they know nothing about. They told doctors "stay in your own lane." According to the NRA, doctors shouldn't speak out on a subject they know nothing about. As if the NRA knew everything there was to know about guns.
The Daily Beast reported:
Immediately after 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California on Thursday, doctors and medical professionals posted on social media their experiences treating victims of gun violence.
It continued a trend that started the night before after a tweet by the NRA mocked the medical community’s call for the reduction of firearms, telling “anti-gun doctors to stay in their own lane.”
Here is what the NRA's tweet said:
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves."
Here is what Jay W Lee, MD tweeted back:
"@NRA We’ll give you our 1st amendment right to discuss gun safety with our patients and the communities we serve when you pry it from our cold, dead hands.#TrustUs #WeAreAmericasDoctors #MakeHealthPrimary #GunViolence #PublicHealth #SwimmingInOurLane #FMRevolution"
Dana Bussing, MD tweeted:
"After treating countless patients with life altering spinal cord injuries and brain injuries secondary to gun shot wounds, I would have to say this is my lane."
David Gorski, MD, PhD tweeted:
"Firearms take a similar number of lives per year as automobile crashes (guns: ~32,000/yr; cars: ~35,000 to 40,000/yr) and are thus a huge public health problem. Doctors and public health officials are obligated to try to reduce the death toll from such causes."
So the point is that you don't have a Constitutional right to drive a car. Why should you have one to own a gun? You have to be licensed to drive a car. Why shouldn't you have to be licensed to shoot a gun? The problem is that gun rights freaks are too dumb to consider statistics that show that gun violence in other civilized countries where they do have gun control is way down compared to the US. Americans have more to fear from domestic mass murderers than they do from terrorists. One lady whose son was killed in the latest mass murder in California said, "I don't want any more of your damn prayers. I want gun control." Amen to that!
