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Posted on 10/22/2009 5:56:57 PM PDT by Kaslin
Gun Rights: A decade after Congress forbade the CDC from studying the health consequences of gun ownership, the National Institutes of Health has started funding such research. Will reform pry the guns from our cold, sick hands?
More than a decade ago Congress, seeing it as a backdoor assault on the 2nd Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms, voted to cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control. Such research was viewed as one-sided and based on flawed assumptions that all gun use was bad, even that which saved lives and deterred crime.
The National Institutes of Health seemed to have picked up the baton by funding similar studies of gun violence as a public health issue.
"It's almost as if someone's been looking for a way to get this study done ever since the Centers for Disease Control was banned from doing it 10 years ago," said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, of one of the NIH studies. "But it doesn't make any more sense now than it did then."
In response to inquiries about the studies, NIH spokesman Don Ralbovsky said: "Gun-related violence is a public health problem — it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH."
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Who the hell is your doctor? I have never been asked that and never heard of anyone being asked.
No, they don’t.
Ditto.
How’s he going to prove it? Tell him to shove it somewhere dark.
Today in nearby San Marcos, Texas, a homeowner defended property against an armed intruder. Shot the intruder 3 times. Home owner and family are healthy tonight.
Intruder survived, but from the report the armed intruder is not feeling too well.
A health issue and correlation to the 2nd may be one of perspective.
I'm sure they will eventually draw the conclusion that the Department of Defense is just a huge public health hazard!
</sarc>
Well, there's your list of public suspects. Time for a shakeout at CDC.
Then we can add their portion of that to the other substantial tab the taxpayers pick up for the people who are here illegally every year.
I can see that happening.
Thanks for the ping. My doctor will be going “Henry Bowman” if this is implemented.
Does this mean we all have to dodge questions from our doctors about guns in the home again? I remember about 10 years ago, every time we went to the doctor they would ask.
Aw jeez!
That has been my contention about the lib agenda for a long time. If they have to resort to fraud, deceit and subterfuge to get their agenda passed, it suggests that they know damn well that their agenda won't pass muster in an open, honest forum with most Americans. So, they intend to force it down our throats instead.
They appear to believe that they can control the backlash. I'm not convinced. I believe that they are victims of their own propaganda.
It seems fortunate for them that we are not the kind of people that they are always accusing us of being...
A gang of arrogant charlatans are in charge!!
Be Ever vigilant!!
It’s already done. The MA AG declared guns “defective consumer products” in the 1990s and promply banned the sale of most handguns in the state. Rule still applies. Only “approved” guns can be sold here. Coming soon to your state.
When they finally make you a felon, become a good one.
Look it up; the gun question is, IIRC, part of a standard CDC battery of public health questions. I'm surprised you've never heard of it.
Oh I’m not. I just can’t believe they asked that. Did you answer? I would say none of your damn business. Since you posted that I asked everyone on my email list, friends, work associates, not a one of them had ever been asked or ever heard of it. I don’t have an HMO.
I noticed that also "Fred Hayek" mentioned it earlier in the thread. He's in Minnesota, my physicians are unfortunately in urban and extremelt leftist northern Virginia. Hayek: are you in an HMO, too? Is the gun ownership question pretty standard in your area?
FYI... I just found some articles on the matter:
http://www.claremont.org/projects/projectid.12/project_detail.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel070501.shtml
http://www.learnaboutguns.com/2008/12/18/my-doctor-wanted-to-know-if-im-a-gun-owner/
http://www.gunblast.com/Gun_Grabbers_AMA.htm
I've always answered, "that's nobody's business." My regular physician as well as the kids' pediatrician both seemed to understand fully that it crosses the line.
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