Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Activist medical doctors want to make public policy as if it were infectious disease policy. They advocate limits on sale of firearms. The National Rifle Association advised them to ‘stay in their lane’ and the doctors are indignant that their opinions are not being sufficiently venerated. The NRA was right. There’s a reason the Founders didn’t delegate drafting the Constitution to blood-letters and leeches.
Being awarded a medical degree give no special insight into the effect of solar radiation on atmospheric conditions; we need not listen to doctors about laws relating to climate change. Practicing trauma medicine gives no special insight into whether the Book of Ruth was inspired by the Holy Spirit; we need not listen to doctors about matters of religious doctrine. Being shot gives no special insight into the historical underpinnings of the rights of Englishmen to keep and bear arms, or the intent of the Founding Fathers in writing the Constitution; we need not listen to doctors about gun control legislation.
Even if medical doctors had special insight, they’re not applying it to this debate. The public health model of infectious disease control requires doctors to identify the cause of the disease (bacteria or virus), quarantine the carriers to minimize outbreak, and devise behaviors to avoid spreading it (sanitary sewer, wash hands, wear a mask, get a vaccine).
Being shot is not a “disease.” There’s no virus causing it. There’s no vaccine to prevent it. It’s strictly a behavioral problem but doctors are not advocating quarantine of the people mostly responsible for spreading it (longer prison terms) or ‘vaccinating’ people likely to spread it (change the culture of underclass youth). Instead, they want everyone to give up cupcakes because the obese ate too many of them.
They see coattails to latch onto.
some numbers I’ve used recently to shut up a Dr who was upset when during a checkup in answer to his querys about how many gun were in my home. I told him I didn’t have a gun stuck up my ass so it was none of his business. He started quoting gun control facts/talking points. I waited til he was done then pointed out that since my putative ownership of guns had no demonstrable bearing on my health what he was engaging in was a Boundary Violation. I then directed his attention to a May 3 2018 BMJ article that listed Medical Error as the third leading cause of death in the US at roughly 250,000 deaths a year. I also pointed out that with fewer than 1,000,000 practicing physicians in the US (780,000+/- last time I checked) the death toll at the hand of physicians was far more appalling than the measly 33,000 that die at the hands of over 100,000,000 gun owners. I suggested that if he were to pay attention to my medical rather than my ideological health I might possibly live through the current encounter with him. He immediately started talking about my blood pressure.
the link:
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_cause_of_death_in_the_us
If physicians want a behavior to limit that *does* result in a deadly disease, well, we got one.
I don’t have the numbers, and I’m not gonna bother chasing them down but I’ll bet that buggery related AIDS kills at least as many, if not more people as feral Negro youths with nines. Definitely kills more than white men with AR platform rifles.
If the physician activists are of pure hearts, working in the best interests of humanity, let them start with something that doesn’t conflict with the Constitution. Maybe a lecture tour on the function of the anus; do’s & dont’s.
Swiftee
just to hammer home the point according to the always reliable CDC:
“There were an estimated 38,500 new HIV infections in 2015. Among all populations in the United States, the estimated number of annual infections declined 8% from 2010 (41,800) to 2015 (38,500).”
“An estimated 1,122,900 adults and adolescents were living with HIV at the end of 2015. Of those, 162,500 (15%) had not received a diagnosis.”
” From 1987 (the first year HIV was listed as a cause of death on death certificates) through 2015, 507,351 people died from HIV disease. In 2015, 6,465 people died from HIV disease.”
It’s not a highway, so saying stay in your lane doesn’t work. It’s the equivalent of telling doctors that the carnage they try to repair, the lives they save, and the ones that slip through their fingers are none of their business.
Señor Bodine says: Look squirrel!
I spent all that time explaining how expertise in one area does not translate to expertise in all areas, which is why medical doctors are entitled to no deference in matters of Constitutional law, and for what?
It’s as if Liberals don’t even bother to read the words, much less think about them; they see a trigger-word and immediately start spouting talking points, as if they were dogs salivating when the dinner bell rings.
“It’s not a highway… “
Emery, using your always impeccable logic, we should not only ban guns but, considering the carnage they inflict, we should immediately ban all personal vehicles including bicycles, Nicht wahr?
One would hope that trauma surgeons would read the papers to learn that the gunshot victims they treated were largely “children of unwed parents” shot by “children of unwed parents” and make an inference, but no such luck. And one would also hope that pathologists who analyze the bodies of suicide victims would realize that the driving factor is depression, not guns, but again, no such luck.
Maybe send them to Japan to find far more suicide victims, few to none of which have a bullet hole? Might be helpful to give them some perspective.
Señor Bodine: If you don’t trust doctors then don’t go to them. Take English courses instead.
Oh, gosh, both Emerys show up to 5) deliberately misrepresent thoughts and feelings to the point of absurdity followed by a nasty but subtle case of 9) name-calling which will probably end up being 15) bait and feign innocence.
And still not one single argument or counterpoint against the original post.
Well done, guys!
Emery Incognito on November 15, 2018 at 7:18 am said:
It’s not a highway . . .
No, it is a metaphor.
I had a manager once who scolded me about riding a motorcycle without a helmet. This idiot manager went on vacation every year, and while on vacation, he did bungee jumping and zip lining. I’ve done neither. Too dangerous.
Like Emery, he did understand the “stay in your lane” metaphor. Move into my lane, and by God I will move into yours.
“Like Emery, he did understand the ‘stay in your lane’ metaphor. Move into my lane, and by God I will move into yours.”
Should be:
“Like Emery, he did notunderstand the ‘stay in your lane’ metaphor. Move into my lane, and by God I will move into yours.”