Doctors versus the NRA

[M14 Shooter]

Unfortunately the Doctors will lose out to those who want no limits on packing their "shootin' irons" on their hips to show how "manly" they are.

Oh look! More proof that anti-gun loons can only argue from emotion, ignorance or dishonesty.

“These guns, these bullets blew open these children’s heads, their bodies, their limbs,” Auerbach wrote. “In what kind of society do we live, whereby these weapons are needed to defend and protect?”

See above.

An estimated 20,600 people under the age of 25 are injured by a gun every year and 6,570 die, according to the AAP. Guns kill twice as many in this age group as cancer, five times as many as heart disease and 20 times as many as infections. By 2015, guns are expected to surpass motor vehicle crashes as a cause of death for young people....

See above.

Fact: <0.0028% of guns are used to murder someone.

 

[westwall]

Unfortunately the Doctors will lose out to those who want no limits on packing their "shootin' irons" on their hips to show how "manly" they are.





Doctors Fight the NRA Over Gun Safety

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Doctors kill more people per year than all the gun deaths (both legal and illegal) combined per year. And whereas there are over 300,000,000 guns that kill 30,000 per year, there are only around 800,000 doctors and according to the AMA they kill 120,000 per year, so according to the AMA (that's the American Medical Association) you are far more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.

Compared to how many lives they save, though. Most reputable physicians won't even belong to the AMA. Very small percentage...Very.
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The decades-long membership decline at the American Medical Association (AMA) shows no signs of slowing, which has some doctors worried that the national voice of their profession may one day fall silent.

Read why: American Medical Association membership woes continue

That's true, in a straight cost/benefit analysis doctors save more than they kill. Just like guns do.

 

[birddog]

Unfortunately the Doctors will lose out to those who want no limits on packing their "shootin' irons" on their hips to show how "manly" they are.

“These guns, these bullets blew open these children’s heads, their bodies, their limbs,” Auerbach wrote. “In what kind of society do we live, whereby these weapons are needed to defend and protect?”

An estimated 20,600 people under the age of 25 are injured by a gun every year and 6,570 die, according to the AAP. Guns kill twice as many in this age group as cancer, five times as many as heart disease and 20 times as many as infections. By 2015, guns are expected to surpass motor vehicle crashes as a cause of death for young people....

Doctors Fight the NRA Over Gun Safety

.

Doctors kill more people per year than all the gun deaths (both legal and illegal) combined per year. And whereas there are over 300,000,000 guns that kill 30,000 per year, there are only around 800,000 doctors and according to the AMA they kill 120,000 per year, so according to the AMA (that's the American Medical Association) you are far more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.

Absolutely true that Iatrogenesis is a leading cause of deaths here.

The mass killings are at least partly if not largely resultant from the Doctor's dangerous use of psycho-tropic drugs.

Guns don't kill people, people kill people! The NRA is correct!

 

[Spoonman]

Unfortunately the Doctors will lose out to those who want no limits on packing their "shootin' irons" on their hips to show how "manly" they are.





Doctors Fight the NRA Over Gun Safety

.

Doctors kill more people per year than all the gun deaths (both legal and illegal) combined per year. And whereas there are over 300,000,000 guns that kill 30,000 per year, there are only around 800,000 doctors and according to the AMA they kill 120,000 per year, so according to the AMA (that's the American Medical Association) you are far more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.

Compared to how many lives they save, though. Most reputable physicians won't even belong to the AMA. Very small percentage...Very.
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The decades-long membership decline at the American Medical Association (AMA) shows no signs of slowing, which has some doctors worried that the national voice of their profession may one day fall silent.

Read why: http://www.cmaj.ca/content/183/11/E713.full

while this is true, guns also save lives. far more than they take. whats next? back grounds checks to become a doctor. this whole liberal concept of managing and controlling everything is so out of control already

 

[AquaAthena]

Doctors kill more people per year than all the gun deaths (both legal and illegal) combined per year. And whereas there are over 300,000,000 guns that kill 30,000 per year, there are only around 800,000 doctors and according to the AMA they kill 120,000 per year, so according to the AMA (that's the American Medical Association) you are far more likely to be killed by a doctor than a gun.

Compared to how many lives they save, though. Most reputable physicians won't even belong to the AMA. Very small percentage...Very.
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The decades-long membership decline at the American Medical Association (AMA) shows no signs of slowing, which has some doctors worried that the national voice of their profession may one day fall silent.

Read why: American Medical Association membership woes continue

while this is true, guns also save lives. far more than they take. whats next? back grounds checks to become a doctor. this whole liberal concept of managing and controlling everything is so out of control already

Link?? " far more than they take." bolded by me above^^^^^

I am not in favor of gun control. Never.

 

[westwall]

Compared to how many lives they save, though. Most reputable physicians won't even belong to the AMA. Very small percentage...Very.
---------------

The decades-long membership decline at the American Medical Association (AMA) shows no signs of slowing, which has some doctors worried that the national voice of their profession may one day fall silent.

Read why: American Medical Association membership woes continue

while this is true, guns also save lives. far more than they take. whats next? back grounds checks to become a doctor. this whole liberal concept of managing and controlling everything is so out of control already

Link?? " far more than they take." bolded by me above^^^^^

I am not in favor of gun control. Never.

Firearms prevent 2.5 million crimes per year. This is a conservative estimate based on the best figures that exist. Most of the stoppages are homeowner vs burglar. Hot burglaries (the type where a bad guy enters the home knowing someone is there) are 80% more likely to end in the injury or death of the homeowner than a standard burglary.


Gary Kleck, Ph.D. is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee and author of "Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America" (Aldine de Gruyter, 1991), a book widely cited in the national gun-control debate. In an exclusive interview, Dr. Kleck revealed some preliminary results of the National Self- Defense Survey which he and his colleague Dr. Marc Gertz conducted in Spring, 1993. Though he stresses that the results of the survey are preliminary and subject to future revision, Kleck is satisfied that the survey's results confirm his analysis of previous surveys which show that American civilians commonly use their privately-owned firearms to defend themselves against criminal attacks, and that such defensive uses significantly outnumber the criminal uses of firearms in America. The new survey, conducted by random telephone sampling of 4,978 households in all the states except Alaska and Hawaii, yield results indicating that American civilians use their firearms as often as 2.5 million times every year defending against a confrontation with a criminal, and that handguns alone account for up to 1.9 million defenses per year. Previous surveys, in Kleck's analysis, had underrepresented the extent of private firearms defenses because the questions asked failed to account for the possibility that a particular respondent might have had to use his or her firearm more than once.


Private Guns Stop Crime 2.5M Times A Year In US

 

[Spoonman]

Compared to how many lives they save, though. Most reputable physicians won't even belong to the AMA. Very small percentage...Very.
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The decades-long membership decline at the American Medical Association (AMA) shows no signs of slowing, which has some doctors worried that the national voice of their profession may one day fall silent.

Read why: American Medical Association membership woes continue

while this is true, guns also save lives. far more than they take. whats next? back grounds checks to become a doctor. this whole liberal concept of managing and controlling everything is so out of control already

Link?? " far more than they take." bolded by me above^^^^^

I am not in favor of gun control. Never.

https://www.gunowners.org/sk0802htm.htm