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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It us pretty much a standard question from any practitioner associated with the major clinic networks: Fairview, Allina, and others. I am not part of an HMO, however, I use Blue Cross/Blue Shield as part of a small business plan since I am self employed.
Another standard question I get is “Do you feel safe in your relationships”. Now what is that supposed to mean! My relationships in Minnesota are BUSINESS ONLY. My real home is TEXAS!
I am stunned that any doctor would ask this question!! Good grief! It would be hilarious indeed if doctors here in Louisiana began asking this question as 99% of the population are avid hunters!!
Lie to the bastards. You are under no obligation to tell them the truth. Or you can tell them it isnone of their damn business. You would probably have a swat tean waiting for you when you got home. But...
This is what you get when you compromise with leftist aka progressive gun haters. A constant attack on the right to bear arms.
They get one laws passed, then they want another. Then another.
The leftist aka progressive gun hater attack on the right to bear arms will end only after they have banned it.
Think about that the very next time you defend a gun control law.
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