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Democrats Warn: Your Gun Is a Public Health Threat
The American Spectator ^ | 8/01/2016 | David Catron

Posted on 08/01/2016 3:28:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

Ronald Reagan famously said, “One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.” He believed that government programs ostensibly meant to address public health crises would inevitably chip away at our personal liberties. For evidence that Reagan was right, one need look no further than Obamacare’s mandate requiring all Americans to buy government-approved insurance. The pretext for that travesty involved the alleged menace to public health posed by the uninsured. This year’s Democrat Party Platform has identified another public health threat against which the government must take action — gun violence.

Under the heading, “Ensure the Health and Safety of All Americans,” the following sentence appears: “There is insufficient research on effective gun prevention policies, which is why the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] must have the resources it needs to study gun violence as a public health issue.” This attempt to pitch gun control as a public health crisis is not new, of course. Two years ago, the Democrats introduced a bill that would have provided the CDC with $10 million a year to study gun crime from the public health perspective. And, in June of this year, the American Medical Association declared that gun violence is a public health crisis.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; democrats; guncontrol; gungrabbers; hillary; publichealth; rkba; secondamendment
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1 posted on 08/01/2016 3:28:34 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Public health isn’t covered in the Constitution. But, guns are! So, if you Public Health people don’t want to use your health system, you might want to rethink your view!


2 posted on 08/01/2016 3:30:56 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The Democrat party is a public enemy.


3 posted on 08/01/2016 3:32:04 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

So is free speech.


4 posted on 08/01/2016 3:32:28 PM PDT by TheDon (BO must be replaced immediately for the good of the nation and the world!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Attention "Public Health" apparatchiks:

Molon Labe, biotch!

5 posted on 08/01/2016 3:32:32 PM PDT by Thumper1960 (Trump-2016)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Why do we need to study gin crime from a public health perspective??

I suspect that gunshot victims experience a severe health problem; problems even surviving and living to tell about it.

Do we need a multi million dollar study to understand that?


6 posted on 08/01/2016 3:35:23 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: liberalism is suicide

“The Democrat party is a public enemy.”

That’s a fact.


7 posted on 08/01/2016 3:36:06 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yet, Democrats not only see nothing wrong with murdering infants, they even celebrate it. God, what a despicable group.


8 posted on 08/01/2016 3:37:20 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“[E]ffective gun prevention” is unconstitutional.


9 posted on 08/01/2016 3:37:39 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
Democrats Warn: Your Gun Is a Public Health Threat

You better believe it is. It is very much a threat to Democrats who think they are going to dictate to us.

10 posted on 08/01/2016 3:39:53 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Thumper1960

Attention “Public Health” apparatchiks:

I’m sorry but I am not authorized to release
that information and you are certainly not
authorized to receive it.
Have a nice day.


11 posted on 08/01/2016 3:40:04 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Ironic, when the real public threat is Democrats.


12 posted on 08/01/2016 3:40:19 PM PDT by Zarro (JAIL CONGRESS!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Only if you attempt to take it away, Demoncraps.


13 posted on 08/01/2016 3:40:43 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Zarro

Especially to everyone’s health.


14 posted on 08/01/2016 3:44:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Along with swimming pools, cars, stepladders, and five-gallon buckets...?


15 posted on 08/01/2016 3:44:47 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: ExGeeEye

There’s no delegated power for ANY federal gun laws, they are all unlawful, ... save perhaps requiring all men eligible to serve in the Militia to own Arms suitable for service if called up and to be proficient in their use ... but that is the utter opposite of what so-called “progressives” want.


16 posted on 08/01/2016 3:45:18 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ExGeeEye
When is being unconstitutional ever stopped a democrat?
17 posted on 08/01/2016 3:45:37 PM PDT by sport
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

CDC...AMA...a bunch of left-wing quacks.


18 posted on 08/01/2016 3:45:42 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hell No, DNC, We Won't Vote For Hillary!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Democrats and liberal Republicrats are the biggest danger to the health of Americans.


19 posted on 08/01/2016 3:45:46 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Ditto!


20 posted on 08/01/2016 3:47:52 PM PDT by Renegade
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