“We live in a society saturated with guns and need better ways of preventing harm from them,” says a doctor who believes the federal government must take a “public health” approach to gun ownership in the United States.
Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the University of California’s Violence Prevention Research Program likens the dangers inherent in owning a gun to those involved in driving a car. “Highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws…slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago…” says the doctor. And just as it “…wasn’t enough…to curb [highway] deaths by trying to make people better drivers…it isn’t enough to tackle gun violence by focusing on the people doing the shooting.”
Rather, in the public health approach to “treating” gun violence, it must be understood that gun ownership itself is a “precursor” to that violence. It therefore becomes the role of science to forbid the sale of firearms to the “wrong sort”—that is, those most likely to engage in gun violence– by determining who that wrong sort is likely to be!
For example, one study found “…firearm owners were more likely than those with no firearms at home to binge drink or to drink and drive…” And as another study found that gun violence and alcohol are sometimes tied together, it becomes obvious that “…people with driving under the influence convictions should be barred from buying a gun.”
Also, according to health policy expert Daniel Webster, gun ownership “…can spread ‘much like an infectious disease circulates.’” ”‘There’s sort of a contagion phenomenon’ after a shooting,” continued Webster, “where people feel they need to have a gun for protection or retaliation.” This behavior reveals itself in the sudden, widespread purchase of firearms after multiple killings or the election of politicians believed a threat to the 2nd Amendment protected rights of American citizens.
It’s therefore likely that believers in the public health approach might occasionally prohibit the sale of firearms for some predetermined amount of time—a cooling off period—so as to allow wiser and clearer heads to prevail!
Naturally, the products most responsible for gun violence must not be ignored. Manufacturers would have to make certain that guns do not go off accidentally and that only the legal owner would be able to fire the weapon. Assault weapons and high capacity magazines would of course be banned.
So rather than focus the efforts of law enforcement on criminals, these masters of societal improvement suggest that a properly caring government should control the purchase of guns by pre-determining who the future criminals are likely to be; permit the American public to buy guns only when the time seems appropriate and allow only the purchase of those weapons considered safe enough to own!
No doubt there are many more “public health” features which would make any concerns about self-defense quite unnecessary by scientifically guaranteeing that only the right people may own nothing but the safest of firearms.
The mind of the left–there is no ground more fertile for unconditional lunacy.
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hey dr. wintemute…u are the social health issue, that we have been trying too get rid of for years…….keester that.
AIDS/HIV is a social disease that needs to be addressed by quarantine… How bout it Doc?
The only REAL SOCIAL DISEASE we have is LIBERALISM! This is the biggest bunch of BULLSHIT I have ever read! Only a LIBERAL could dream up something like this! When are people going to wake up to the putrid smell of this LIBERAL GARBAGE???? MY GOD! Where are people's BRAINS???? I know where liberals are…about six inches up a hole and STUCK THERE!!!!!
Hey Angelicsweep, you got it right.
Getting rather bad when even the doctors want to be nannies. They can't police their own to keep medical malpractice down but they want to tell you how to drive or IF you can own a firearm.
Maybe one good thing to come from oblameocare. Less nannies to worry about.
Guess they have to find work elsewhere is where this bull is coming from.
These HACK liberal supposed doctors need to treat liberalism, it has done FAR more damage to our country than guns.
Stick to treating sick people and not touting the sick gun grabbers.
I thought doctors were 'sposed to be smart? He didn't lose a loved one in Aurora, evidently, where a concealed carry citizen could have ended the melee sooner. and GUNS ARE EASY TO MAKE.
The doctor must have gone to one of our liberal colleges. Just because someone is educated doesn’t mean they have any common sense.
That doctor is brain damaged. I have NEVER read, or heard of such utter gobblty gook, stupid in the extreme. But what else can anyone expect from a dimwitted, brain damaged, know it all “expert” in all things. I once had a doctor who told me that “doctors get a “god” syndrome” and think they know all, see all, and are smarter than anyone on earth. This idiot just proved that to be true. I wouldn’t let him pronounce my dog dead, if he died. What an idiot, a complete dimwit dimocrap, libturd. full of shit.
I saw a medical doctor found a link between Insanity and Liberalism…does that mean that all Liberals are Insane (damn I didn't think out this Argument of mine far enough cause in all my dealings with Liberals this holds true…I'll just keep going with it anyways)…So because this one Doctor makes that claim, then I would have to say that no Liberals should be able to own a gun, but the Constitution states that a Citizens Right to bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED UPON (except for Felons and Court Mandated Psychiatric cases), so unless the Liberal was Court Ordered to seek Psychiatric help, then they have the same rights as anyone else.
What the Hell is the doctors' problem? THEY'RE the social disease, not gun owners wanting to protect their rights and their property! The doctors need to receive mental help!
Yet even FBI statistics show, gun ownership is up by about 60%, whilegun crimes are down by about 21%. It seems a bit odd that these researchers can find all sorts of corralations to supposed criminal incidents & gun ownership, yet they fail to see those "real" numbers that totally contradict & in fact destroy their vacuous assertions that guns are causing rampant crime. Inner city crime rates may be up, but in virtually every case, that crime is happening in cities that prohibit or make gun ownership exceptionally dificult. These "gun free" zones appear to be the criminal & insane persons favorite hunting grounds for victims. After all, those victims are unarmed & those using those guns know this before they go in! Imagine what life would be like if liberal government types got their way to disarm all of us!!???
Doctors take a Hippocratic oath; which is swearing allegiance to pagan gods. Now tell me these people are sane and grounded in reality. A statistic came out at the turn of this century that revealed the average American doctor murders, through neglect and ignorance, six patients a year. How about unnecessary surgeries? Doctors are arrogant fools.