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Doctors target gun violence as a social disease
San Antonio-Express News ^ | August 12, 2012 | MARILYNN MARCHIONE

Posted on 08/12/2012 3:55:54 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol? Yes say public health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.

What we need, they say, is a public health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose.

.............Dr. David Satcher tried to make gun violence a public health issue when he became CDC director in 1993. Four years later, laws that allow the carrying of concealed weapons drew attention when two women were shot at an Indianapolis restaurant after a patron's gun fell out of his pocket and accidentally fired. Ironically, the victims were health educators in town for an American Public Health Association convention.

That same year, Hargarten won a federal grant to establish the nation's first Firearm Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

"Unlike almost all other consumer products, there is no national product safety oversight of firearms," he wrote in the Wisconsin Medical Journal.

That's just one aspect of a public health approach. Other elements:.......

......Disease patterns, observing how a problem spreads. Gun ownership — a precursor to gun violence — can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates," said Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore.....

(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guns; healthcare
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Crazy people don’t need guns to kill,see middle east and people like Jeff the clown.


21 posted on 08/12/2012 4:59:18 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

That’s been in the works for 20 some odd years. As bad as Obama is being a former Joyce Foundation member, nobody holds a candle to the Clinton people when it comes to gun grabbing. Not even close.


22 posted on 08/12/2012 5:03:38 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Holding my nose one more time to get rid of Eric Holder)
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To: Venturer

This is not the perspective of all or even most docs. Like all groups, there are a few loud liberals who think they speak for all in that group.....


23 posted on 08/12/2012 5:05:29 AM PDT by Mom MD (T he country needs Obamacare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask)
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To: PubliusMM; muir_redwoods; All

Who else remembers how Tipper Gore (when VP wife) worked on mental health care issues? Do you recall how she wanted pediatricians given permission to ask their young patients about guns in their homes (as it might be upsetting them and causing mental health problems)?


24 posted on 08/12/2012 5:09:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Darren McCarty
....As bad as Obama is being a former Joyce Foundation member, nobody holds a candle to the Clinton people when it comes to gun grabbing. Not even close.

See post #24.

However, the current Democrat administration is gun walking to force more laws.

25 posted on 08/12/2012 5:12:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: driftless2

“All my doctors and dentists... are hunters i.e. gun owners”.

My husband and I have been quizzed formally a few times by doctors/hospital personnel reference owning guns. Once when I was in hard labor with my first child and when my husband was getting a pre-physical for a simple surgical procedure. We refused to answer both times... but this question is becoming more common.


26 posted on 08/12/2012 5:13:41 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: momtothree
"refused to answer"

Good for you. It's none of their $%^%^%$ business.

27 posted on 08/12/2012 5:18:48 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: tbw2

“Exercising your right results in a denial of care, but not active round-ups and jail time.”

“...not active roundups...” at this time.

It’s still a step well beyond the bounds of the Constitution. Sadly, I’m getting closer and closer to the belief that we will require another revolution to right this ship.


28 posted on 08/12/2012 5:24:30 AM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
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To: SLB

Whoo Hoo ....designated parking spaces !! < / sarcasm>

IMHO we will have to fight this trash till the end of time in some form or manner SLB.

Profitable for both sides to keep the issue alive. Not only the polidiots but the presstitute toadies and anti-gun associations that profit versus perform for the socialist liberal idgits that fund their vacations and personal bank accounts.

Sort of like the cure for cancer. Related industry is to big to allow a solution or cure.

I carry, I have life memberships to NRA and the Texas State Rifle association. I vote on election day and with my dollars between such elections.

My personal efforts with time an money this election are on taking the house and senate to hopefully mitigate the damage the executive branch has in store for the destruction of our beloved republic.

Rotate your cache, BLOAT and take time each day to listen, learn and respond to such trash. Every time a polidiot in ANY state goes anti-gun donate to his conservative opponents if you can.

Just my opinion, Stay safe !


29 posted on 08/12/2012 5:24:54 AM PDT by Squantos
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To: Travis McGee
thank God my Doc is a Lt.Colonel in the reserves... he's been to Iraq three times and Afghanistan twice and knows i shoot with his father at the club, both good men
30 posted on 08/12/2012 5:28:08 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Brass Lamp

If your doctor asks if you have guns, just turn the table on him/her.
Ask if his wife or husband is still a prostitute?
That will usually piss them off enough to drop the idiotic questions.
If not, you can ask the good Doc if he/she still has gay sex?
I take no crap from any doctor. They are not god.


31 posted on 08/12/2012 5:28:25 AM PDT by 9422WMR (Life is not fair, just deal with it.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Unlike almost all other consumer products, there is no national product safety oversight of firearms," he wrote in the Wisconsin Medical Journal.

There is no God-given right to "other consumer products" as there is for firearms and other weapons, is there?

32 posted on 08/12/2012 5:28:37 AM PDT by metesky (Brethren, leave us go amongst them! - Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond, The Searchers)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The "social disease" involved is dysfunctional minority subcultures.

Political correctness prevents any effective efforts so the damned liberals can only conclude that EVERYONE has too much freedom.

33 posted on 08/12/2012 5:32:14 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: 9422WMR
If your doctor asks if you have guns, just turn the table on him/her.

I've yet to be asked, but my intention is to return with "Do you have a medical practitioner in your home?" and then lecture them with latest malpractice statistics.

34 posted on 08/12/2012 5:33:52 AM PDT by Brass Lamp
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To: metesky

According to the article, gun ownership (among other “health issues) is contagious.

“...”There’s sort of a contagion phenomenon” after a shooting, where people feel they need to have a gun for protection or retaliation, he said.”....


35 posted on 08/12/2012 5:34:00 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

OK so lets vote for a 3rd pty candidate so this crap can move forward(sarc)
This is another reason the current regime in its entirety needs to be defeated and a no vote or 3rd party vote will not, JR, help achieve that goal.


36 posted on 08/12/2012 5:34:45 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Discussion about guns in the exam room comes under the definition of a “boundary violation”

http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/2nd_Amend/boundary_violation.htm


37 posted on 08/12/2012 5:38:56 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: t1b8zs

Then feel free to start your own site -

Romney4Us.


38 posted on 08/12/2012 5:45:54 AM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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To: JCBreckenridge

I know its early but read the post,does it indicate some where I will not be voting for Mittens,geshhhhhh


39 posted on 08/12/2012 5:55:16 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Mom MD

Yes, and those are the ones the liberals listen to.


40 posted on 08/12/2012 6:03:54 AM PDT by Venturer
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