Posted on 04/10/2010 5:02:34 AM PDT by marktwain
To recap what we've reviewed so far, on Tuesday we noted how some doctors are presuming to give one-size-fits-all "safe storage" advice that could get you killed. On Wednesday, we challenged such doctors to either document their credentials to advise in this area, or admit they have none. And yesterday, we saw how much of the anti-gun sentiment within the medical establishment is driven down from the top, and has been for some time.
So—what can we as non-medical professionals do about that?
For starters, we can use the form presented in Wednesday's column, should our doctor presume to advise us to not have a gun in the first place, or if we do, to render it useless for home defense.
Next we need to find out who are friends are. We have them in the medical community, you know. I've been following some of their work for years. I'm going to pass on a few resources, names and publications as a starting point.
Let's start with Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, a project of the Claremont Institute, headed by a surgeon, Dr. Timothy Wheeler:
DRGO’s members include experts on public health, firearm technology, gun safety education, and tactical medicine. DRGO is the antidote to those who twist science to serve a misguided political agenda of gun control. We believe that managing the lives of honest citizens does not control crime, but putting criminals out of business does.
Another organization that was active a few years back was Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws. I haven't seen activity from them lately, and many of the links on their website no longer function, but there is still much good information to be found here. You can meet some of the professionals who were behind this effort here.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
They can all go to hell.
My OBGYN once looked at the HMO form that included “Do you own a gun?” in the check list for discussion. I said it was very good for my health, since I worked in downtown Dallas at the time, and not getting raped was probably something the health plan preferred. He said that was a very good reason to own one, then we went on with life.
Look, you want doc to support you? Take them out on the firing range for an afternoon. Spending time time and patience teaching them how to shoot. Start with .22s.
To which I lined out the question and wrote in "None of your business".
My doc had no problem with my response. The form was standard HMO BS.
More media manufacture of problems that should never exist. If I can’t go shooting with my doctor, it’s unlikely that it’s my doctor. It is very important that you be personally involved in your medical decisions. One of those decisions is to know about your doctor. Of course, thanks to a traitorous media, we can’t even know the truth about the Kenyon President.
My physicians shoot. If they were anti-gun they wouldn’t be my physicians.
Which they will take as a "Yes", for whatever nefarious purpose they may have in mind. When asked this question by anybody, I lie in my teeth and say "No", for as you say, it's none of their business, and for these people, ignorance is bliss.
Their approach reminds me of a German guy on the History Channel talking about how the Nazis gradually conditioned people. He said that in one of their innumerable interviews with a civil servant, he was asked, "Do you have any Jews in your family?" He said that at the time, nobody thought anything of it. Luckily, he said "No".
I put these "out of bounds" questions in that "Jew" category and somewhat revel in the thought that I might be messing with their statistics, if not their minds.
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