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CA: Doctor's question about guns baffles patient
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Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Dear Doctor: Out of the blue, my new primary care doctor asked me if I owned a gun. Was it appropriate, or even legal, for her to ask that?
Dear Reader: I can understand why you were surprised. Doctors generally try to avoid wading into political discussions, which, as we know, the topic of guns has become. Lately, though, many have been reassessing that arms-length stance and focusing on guns as a public health issue. |
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Witness the comprehensive list of liberal talking points, top-to-bottom.
While the good doctor asserts that the rate of suicide-by-gun in the U.S. is 11 times the closest foreign country, he conveniently omits the fact that Japan's suicide rate (with ZERO guns) dwarfs that of the U.S., despite Japan having only 1/4 of the U.S.'s population.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. — Aristotle, as quoted by John Trenchard and Water Moyle, An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy [London, 1697]. |
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