Gun violence a public health issue?

[Woodznutz]

Some on the Left want to legislate gun ownership as a public health issue. Why not legislate the more serious public health issues, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.?

 

[berg80]

Some on the Left want to legislate gun ownership as a public health issue. Why not legislate the more serious public health issues, like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc.?

Because heart disease does not cause the afflicted to commit mass murder.

 

[Woodznutz]

Because heart disease does not cause the afflicted to commit mass murder.

Gun ownership doesn't 'cause' mass murder, anger does. Deal with anger, not gun ownership. Stop pissing people off and they will stop shooting you. Behind the so-called 'mental' problems of these shooters are serious anger issues.

 

[BluesLegend]

It's not gun violence, its human violence.

 

[1srelluc]

 

[Esdraelon]

Because heart disease does not cause the afflicted to commit mass murder.

Neither does the gun. The anti-gun crowd are going to have to do a lot more than hyperventilate and slander law-abiding gun owners to ever disarm Americans. The number of people who die by gunfire is a fraction of those killed in cars or pedestrian mishaps and the majority even of gun deaths is self-inflicted. We will NOT be disarmed, we will NOT comply.

 

[TNHarley]

Because heart disease does not cause the afflicted to commit mass murder.

Neither do guns, you fucking idiot.
Do you understand how stupid a person sounds when they resort to anthropomorphism?

 

[BackAgain]

Well, I will admit that being shot is a medical issue to the person suffering from a gunshot wound.

 

[Woodznutz]

Well, I will admit that being shot is a medical issue to the person suffering from a gunshot wound.

Certainly, but is it a public health issue?

 

[BackAgain]

Certainly, but is it a public health issue?

Maybe if I’m getting the medical attention free to me at tax payer cost. Otherwise, probably not.

 

[Circe]

Certainly, but is it a public health issue?

It's an interesting argument. Is gang violence a public health issue? How about all the spam and con robocalls that bother people day and night? How about closing schools and forbidding children having any friends, making them prisoners in their houses?

Seems to me there are a lot of crimes that could be considered public health issues, if one wants to define them that way.

 

[Woodznutz]

It's an interesting argument. Is gang violence a public health issue? How about all the spam and con robocalls that bother people day and night? How about closing schools and forbidding children having any friends, making them prisoners in their houses?

Seems to me there are a lot of crimes that could be considered public health issues, if one wants to define them that way.

Crime is certainly a public health issue. The crazy way they're dealing with it is a mental health issue as well...it's driving us nuts.