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Report Copyright Violation | Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! [ link to www.usatoday.com] Doctors target gun violence as a social disease
Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.
What we need, they say, is a public health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose.
"Unlike almost all other consumer products, there is no national product safety oversight of firearms," he wrote in the Wisconsin Medical Journal.
"Host" factors: What makes someone more likely to shoot, or someone more likely to be a victim. One recent study found firearm owners were more likely than those with no firearms at home to binge drink or to drink and drive, and other research has tied alcohol and gun violence. That suggests that people with driving under the influence convictions should be barred from buying a gun, Wintemute said.
• Product features: Which firearms are most dangerous and why. Manufacturers could be pressured to fix design defects that let guns go off accidentally, and to add technology that allows only the owner of the gun to fire it (many police officers and others are shot with their own weapons). Bans on assault weapons and multiple magazines that allow rapid and repeat firing are other possible steps.
• "Environmental" risk factors: What conditions allow or contribute to shootings. Gun shops must do background checks and refuse to sell firearms to people convicted of felonies or domestic violence misdemeanors, but those convicted of other violent misdemeanors can buy whatever they want. The rules also don't apply to private sales, which one study estimates as 40% of the market.
• Disease patterns, observing how a problem spreads. Gun ownership — a precursor to gun violence — can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates," said Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore.
"There's sort of a contagion phenomenon" after a shooting, where people feel they need to have a gun for protection or retaliation, he said.Notice they say GUN OWNERSHIP... not gun possession... This is like the Soviets saying that if you don't worship Stalin as a God, you're mentally sick... |
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08/17/2012 07:42 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! See how this is gonna fit in with OBarkyfraudCare?  I bet all these "doctors" are Red Sea Pedestrians, too. |
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08/17/2012 07:47 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! So now you can get some free Obamacare if you like guns. |
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08/17/2012 08:10 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Yeah you can get Obamacare if you like guns... but only in a mental hospital, chained to a bed. |
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08/17/2012 08:12 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Lol, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Jesus christ, doctors kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, far exceeding guns.
Not counted in these homicidal death statistics caused by doctors, are the millions that are disabled and mentally scrambled by their mind-altering drugs that chemically lobotomize people.
Fire your doctor. Heal yourself. |
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08/17/2012 08:19 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Sounds like we need guns to protect us from these whack jobs Eat, drink, and be merry,
for tomorrow,
you may die. |
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08/17/2012 08:27 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF!
Lol, talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Jesus christ, doctors kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, far exceeding guns.
Not counted in these homicidal death statistics caused by doctors, are the millions that are disabled and mentally scrambled by their mind-altering drugs that chemically lobotomize people.
Fire your doctor. Heal yourself.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 21679734 Fuckin' A! "Doctors" are only useful in emergencies, like when you break a limb, or get cut!  Otherwise, they are just pushers for BIG PHARMA!!! |
Anonymous Coward (OP)
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08/17/2012 08:28 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Sounds like we need guns to protect us from these whack jobs
Quoting: ZeuZ Yep... This doctor would have fitted right in in Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. |
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08/17/2012 08:28 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Sounds like we need guns to protect us from these whack jobs
Quoting: ZeuZ +1 |
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08/17/2012 08:29 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! This is getting absurd lol |
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08/17/2012 09:10 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! I know doctors that have guns so I think those doctors I mentioned won't like this statement.
These are the same kind that will kill you with drugs because they know best. I call them little demigods, that is their attitude. |
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08/17/2012 09:12 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! the doctors that are pushing this are a social disease. |
Dragonslayer2001
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08/17/2012 11:28 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Doctor : gun ownership is a social disease... WTF! Jesus christ, doctors kill hundreds of thousands of people a year, far exceeding guns.
lol. good point. |
