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getsome
02-24-2015, 11:32 AM
I've always figured that sooner or later the CDC and the AMA would decide that guns were a disease and the attack on gun owners would be from the position of "Public Health"....Well in the news today is that the American Bar Association and 7 major Medical groups are teaming up to fight for more gun control, backround checks of private sales, assault weapons and high capicity magazine bans because of the danger to the health of the general public.....
http://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20150223gunviolence.html
berettabone
02-24-2015, 12:25 PM
You tell your doctor, that it's NOHFB......................................pay bill..........
ScottM
02-24-2015, 01:15 PM
"Oppose blanket reporting laws that require physicians to report patients with mental or substance use disorders, because these laws may stigmatize patients and keep them from seeking treatment."
And yet safe, lawful owners of firearms shouldn't be likewise protected from non-owner doc bullying?
TheTman
02-24-2015, 02:12 PM
If they are serious about saving lives, ban swimming pools, they kill more kids every year than guns do in several.
I think curiosity kills in many instances, where kids find something they've never seen before and then BANG. From the time my children were about 3, I would get a gun out and show it to them, and let them hold it and mess with it until they figured it wasn't any thing fun to play with, and then when they were older took them out shooting, to show what they did. After that I never worried much about them finding one and not knowing what it was, and they knew that it was dangerous. Some nights I would leave an unloaded gun on the coffee table (bullets safely stored away) and go to bed, and the next morning the gun would be in the same spot. I got told a couple of times that I had left the gun out and shouldn't do that, and I would tell them "good job!, I forgot to put that away last night. " I can see where a young child might find one, and not knowing what it was, might start cocking hammers and pulling triggers and such, just to see what it does.
muggsy
02-24-2015, 02:38 PM
My doctor asked me if I owned a gun and I told him hell no, I own a safe full of them, so don't mess with me. He has mentioned the subject since. :)
ScottM
02-24-2015, 03:01 PM
TMan has it spot on. I'm still a huge fan of Eddie the Eagle.
marshal kane
02-25-2015, 06:45 AM
If they are serious about saving lives, ban swimming pools, they kill more kids every year than guns do in several.
I think curiosity kills in many instances, where kids find something they've never seen before and then BANG. From the time my children were about 3, I would get a gun out and show it to them, and let them hold it and mess with it until they figured it wasn't any thing fun to play with, and then when they were older took them out shooting, to show what they did. After that I never worried much about them finding one and not knowing what it was, and they knew that it was dangerous. . .
I did the same thing with both my boys. I let them handle my guns when they were small while I supervised them. After a while, when I asked them if they wanted to see dad's gun, they replied, "No dad, I want to do something else." That was a very satisfying response.
laserfish
02-25-2015, 02:12 PM
Kids are super observant. When my son was probably about 6 I was taking a gun out of the cabinet (back when you could actually display your firearms) and he said "I bet I know what you are going to do now". I asked him what? and he said "check it to make sure it is not loaded". I was a proud papa. They are smart, so get the curiosity out of the way and teach them what a gun is for and what it does. We always discussed what was to be done with and animal before we killed it to be sure they understood why. Then at an early age they knew exactly what a gun was capable of and why we were extremely observant of all gun rules. I also taught them that if any of their friends decided to get out one of the guns in their house they were to get out immediately and tell a parent or adult. Fortunately that never happened.
Alfonse
02-25-2015, 03:49 PM
The comments are great. I don't think the membership necessarily supports that position.
ScottM
02-25-2015, 07:37 PM
The comments are great. I don't think the membership necessarily supports that position.
I think you're right and there's probably a predictable city/country bias. I'd bet most country docs have a different position than the big city docs do. In central ohio, my pediatrician suggested that if there are guns in the house that they be secured from prying fingers. I though that was a pretty responsible public health position for the doc to take, so I agreed and thanked her for the reminder, and that was that.
deadeye
02-25-2015, 09:30 PM
My doctor has an NRA sticker on his truck. He and a few others shoot at the range with us. How would I tell him no? Doubt if I'll have to.
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