Posted on 11/29/2005 9:28:50 AM PST by dead
Dr. Kurtz said the time has come to get the guns off the city's streets...Dr. Robert Kurtz, co-director of trauma and critical care at Kings County Hospital, fought to save the life of hero cop Dillon Stewart.
THE country and the city are awash in guns and we have to do something about it.
New York, as we all know, has very restrictive gun laws and a very active police force that works very hard to get guns off the streets.
But when the whole country is deluged with guns, and when people can buy guns very easily in Florida, Georgia, and Virginia and bring them up here, they're much too easily available.
Consider what would have happened yesterday with stricter federal gun controls in effect. If this man were angry at Officer Dillon Stewart, he might have punched him instead of shooting him.
But when he could turn to a gun to settle a dispute, the results were tragic. What an utter waste of a decent young man. What a waste of so many lives.
Why have we allowed our city streets to become war zones — war zones that have made us so experienced at treating gunshot wounds at KCH that we were chosen to train Army nurses and doctors in battlefield medicine?
There have been a slew of bills out there in Congress to curb the gun lobby. But the armaments industry controls the National Rifle Association, and the NRA has intimidated politicians, both Republican and Democratic, making it impossible to pass suitably restrictive gun laws…
We've lectured against violence and we've let people know how important gun control is… Hopefully, the death of Officer Stewart will reignite the people's passion to bring the gun lobby to heel.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That man who shot the cop yesterday was just emotional and a tad excitable. It was hardly even his fault at all. It was the gun's fault for amplifying his rage to deadly levels.
If all of us law-abiding citizens would allow the helpful lads of the government to disarm us all, the evil guns would leave us alone.
Thank God our forefathers had the foresight they had. There is a mechanism, good doctor, for getting the ineffective laws you seek enacted in a constitutional manner. Get two thirds of both houses of congress, three quarters of the fifty states, and the president to agree on a change to the Constitution. Until that time, leave us free men alone.
Amen.
Let me get this straight: the shooting occurred in the city and state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country and "Dr Demento" here thinks the problem is not enough gun control?
Sh'yeah...right...
And criminals stop using guns because there are laws against them...
...Consider what would have happened yesterday with stricter federal gun controls in effect....
Consider how many damned commies will die if they try to revoke the Second Amendmnet.
Want mine, come and try to get it.
I think Patton said, "Don't mourn the death of these men. Thank God that men like these lived."
Dang it. Gotta register for the NY post to read a anti-gun article. I thought they were the good guys.
Ah, New York, where even the CONSERVATIVE NY Post is anti-gun, as are nearly every Republican politician (including Rudy).
Hey Doc, in the course of writing this article did you ever consider that the Seattle area, where I can walk into any shop and, following a quick BATF background check, purchase a weapon (to say nothing of shall-issue concealed carry), has a lower murder rate than New York? Could it be that areas with high homicide rates tend to be those with dysfunctional social mores rather than those with easy access to firearms?
while i truly respect this doctor and the work he does, he fails to see the difference between legal and illegal guns. he only sees the damage guns can do in the hands of criminals. i cannot blame him but i also cannot agree with him.
NY Republicans are anti-gun. Its in the water up there.
The trend in crimes is down, including gun violence. But ya should never let the facts get in the way of a good story.
I've had this debate before with a local ER doc. For highly educated people some are pretty clueless about the real world
Doc, we are awash in guns where I'm at too. We also have one of the lowest homicide rates in the country.
Sure, doc...whatever you say.
After reading this, I think I'll send the NRA a little Christmas present.
Yeah, we all know how strict gun control has ended gun violence in the island nations of Great Britain and Australia.
Oops, it hasn't.
Yet another liberal response to failure - demand we do more of what fails in the hope that doing enough of it might work, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Another emotional appeal to destroy the only defense the population has against anarchy or tyranny.
ok.. I puked... can a get an alert next time :)
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