[Cincinatus' Wife]

May 2012: U.S. Surgeon General—Keynote Commencement Speaker, Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology David Satcher, M.D., PhD, is the 16th Surgeon General of the United States who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998-2002 while serving simultaneously as the Assistant Secretary for Health

...... Two overarching themes run through “Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General”--- the importance of information, policies and activities that reduce and eventually eliminate the cruel and unfair stigma attached to mental illness; and the importance of a solid research base for every mental health and mental illness intervention.

....."Of his disappointments Satcher speaks of supporting research showing that guns were most dangerous to the people who owned them than they were in terms of protection. “We tried to get Congress to pass gun control legislation, but that was used against me when I was being considered for Surgeon General”, he said."...

Holder in 1995: ‘Really brainwash people’ to be anti-gun ...

[Ronin]

Hello backdoor gun control.

It’s for your own good, you know.

[Travis McGee]

[Diogenesis]

With RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE, "doctors" are agents of the state.

Who cares what a Provider (a state owned-"doctor") says under duress.

"RomneyCare 2.0 With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care
Under the plan, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals and other providers must register
with a new state bureaucracy as a condition of licensure—that is, permission to practice.
They'll be required to track and report their financial performance, price and cost trends,
state-sanctioned quality measures, market share and other metrics."

[SECURE AMERICA]

who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.

gun violence?
This is difference from other violence?
How?
Is a human being more violated or more dead if you shoot them, then if you beat a person to death with a baseball bat?
IDIOTS. The problem is PEOPLE not the gun or the bat.....

[PubliusMM]

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

And, “all other consumer products” should be treated the same; there should be NO Government sponsored “national product safety oversight” on those, either.
Product safety should be a function of free market dynamics, not government intrusion into the private sector. There is no Constitutional authority for such intrusion.

[muir_redwoods]

Notice the almost imperceptible, seamless way gun violence and gun ownership are blended to be virtually the same thing. Also missing is any allowance for justifiable gun violence as in self protection.

Unwarranted gun violence may be a social disease; gun ownership and self-protection are not.

[Utmost Certainty]

Why can't statism be considered a 'social disease', esp. considering its far more virulent pathology?

[Venturer]

These are the same “Doctors” who declared Homosexuality was not a disease.

Fug them, and their stupid liberal ideas

[Brass Lamp]

This is exactly why you should never have to answer a doctor’s question as to whether you have guns or not.

[theBuckwheat]

I am targeting government bureaucracies as a socialist disease.

[driftless2]

If mere ownership of guns caused gun violence, then Wisconsin would have massacres weekley similar to what happened at the Sikh temple. Thousands or hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites have multiple firearms. My part of the state has a large contingent of hunters and gun owners many of whom have multiple firearms. It has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. And a few murders we’ve had recently were the work of criminal gangs. If you were going choose a person most likely to go on shooting rampage, you might pick someone, like Page, who’d lost his job, his girlfriend, and was a member of a hate group. Target those people...not law-abiding citizens.

[Vaduz]

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

[Darren McCarty]

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.

[metesky]

"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?

[SWAMPSNIPER]

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.

[CGASMIA68]

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.

[mo]

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

[BobL]

I already dealt with a pediatrician asking my kid, privately, if there are guns in the house. I have NO IDEA where that information would have been reported if he said yes, or what the follow-up questions would have been - I suspect it goes into some database, along with the rest of his records.

I remember Florida was trying to outlaw that kind of crap, but even people here defended it as “doctor-patient” privilege. Sickening.

[redgolum]

Interesting they feel the need to go this route. Further proof that a lot of “medicine” of the mind is just quackery.

[a fool in paradise]

Meanwhile promiscuity by teens and homosexuals will continue to be encouraged without moral or health discussions. STDs and mental health be damned.