their opinions are not being sufficiently venerated<\/a>.\u00a0 The NRA was right.\u00a0 There\u2019s a reason the Founders didn\u2019t delegate drafting the Constitution to blood-letters and leeches.<\/p>\nBeing 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Even if medical doctors had special insight, they\u2019re not applying it to this debate.\u00a0 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).<\/p>\n
Being shot is not a \u201cdisease.\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s no virus causing it.\u00a0 There\u2019s no vaccine to prevent it.\u00a0 It\u2019s strictly a behavioral problem but doctors are not advocating quarantine of the people mostly responsible for spreading it (longer prison terms) or \u2018vaccinating\u2019 people likely to spread it (change the culture of underclass youth).\u00a0 Instead, they want everyone to give up cupcakes because the obese ate too many of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
They see coattails to latch onto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Activist medical doctors want to make public policy as if it were infectious disease policy.\u00a0 They advocate limits on sale of firearms.\u00a0 The National Rifle Association advised them to \u2018stay in their lane\u2019 and the doctors are indignant that their opinions are not being sufficiently venerated.\u00a0 The NRA was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68569,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68568\/revisions\/68569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}