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 ...
Bad doctors kill more people each year than guns.
Yep
It was most disappointing that the Post ran this on the page opposite the report, not on an opinion page. Even the headline makes it appear as news.
Actually that comment from the doc is twice as ignorant considering the officer was shot by the suspect from a moving stolen car and the suspect was already being sought for assaulting an officer last week
Or he might have tossed acid on him, thrown a Molotov Cocktail at him, or blown him up with TATP or other home brewed explosive made from commonly available materials.
So, Doc, Georgia is statistically safer than NYC because our easily purchased death-guns fly north with the snowbirds, right?
I completely agree. They get all dirty and grungy when they're in the streets.... not to mention all that noise when the street-sweeper comes by.
Okay, Doc, so push for a program buy free holsters for all who want them.
"making it impossible to pass suitably restrictive gun laws"
Oh, that pesky Second Amendment, the gift of 1789 that just keeps giving! Thank you founding fathers.
Here's a novel idea: How about shaping a society that respects life and doesn't dispose of it at will?
For the sake of the children, Dr. Kurtz needs to be prevented from freely exercising his first amendment rights. There have been a slew of bills out there in Congress to curb the free speech lobby. But the newspaper industry controls the ACLU, and the ACLU has intimidated politicians, both Republican and Democratic, making it impossible to pass suitably restrictive speech laws…
...actually he shot and wounded another officer during a robbery attempt for clarification
"Get guns off the streets." Fine. How do you accomplish this? Go door to door in so-called high crime neighborhoods and confiscate them? The screams of profiling and racism would put a stop to that right away. But sad to say, that is probably the only thing that would work. More laws won't accomplish a thing.
This is the hard fact that needs to be thrown into the face of this and every other anti-gun doctor.
Doctors kill more people than guns every year!
Medical mistakes would never be tolerated in any other industry.
Dr Kurtz is a f...ing moron and it's time to do something about it. Maybe send him a good stiff memo.
THE country and the city are awash in guns and we have to do something about it.
Memo to Dr. Kurtz:
Perhaps it has escaped your attention that NYC has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. However, you appear to have missed out on the logical connection that having repressive gun control laws DID NOT prevent the criminal from having a gun. Perhaps you would care to explain to the rest of us how this could be. After all if NYC's restrictive laws prevented violence, then this occurrence could not have taken place yet it did.
Perhaps it has also escaped your attention that the criminal was already breaking gun control laws by having a firearm. Would you care to explain how you would keep criminals who are willing to commit murder from obtaining firearms? You must have thought this through, so please share your wisdom with the rest of us.
making it impossible to pass suitably restrictive gun laws…
What would you consider to be suitably restrictive gun laws? Would you go with the Nazi model (always a favorite with New Yorkers) Would you go with the Russian model (not as popular, but does take into account the rampant corruption found in government bureaucracies such as NYC's) or would you have your own as yet unspecified model?
Eagerly awaiting your response.
LOL. Nothing worse than trying to carry my Kimber in a wet paper sack.
Some doctors should stick to doctoring and keep their mouths shut about things they know nothing about.
This appears to be part of a coordinated attack on gun ownership by Blue cities. Massachusetts has already stated that it will stop the sale of guns in OTHER states.
So what makes you think he knows anything about doctoring? After all, the patient did die.
He is your typical liberal idiot. He makes the argument about the uselessness of more gun control without even realizing it.
Even if you make the wild leap of assumption that it were possible to confiscate all the guns, history has proven time and time again that a thriving black market would immediately appear to fill the demand, and we're talking smuggling full auto military weapons, RPGs, grenades, the whole schmear. This is what happens when normal civilian guns are illegal. Do we really want these gangstas importing SMGs and grenades along with everything else that walks across the border? I think not. If it's easy to import pot and coke, it's easy to import heavy military weaponry, and why not if it's all illegal? Why waste time smuggling revolvers or bird guns?
Dr Kurtz needs to examine why his NYC patients are driven to shoot at one another. Treat the disease, not the symptoms.
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