A Physician’s Perspective: the Public Health Challenge of Gun Safety

health.usnews.com ^ | 1/28/2016 | Michael Rabovsky, M.D.

[rktman]

There are 90 deaths due to firearms every day in the U.S., or more than 33,000 deaths a year.

[Neidermeyer]

There are 90 deaths due to firearms every day in the U.S.
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And 2/3rds of those are suicides... To mis-quote Archie Bunker “Would it make you happier if they jumped off of bridges?”

[Neidermeyer]

I read that in Nazi Germany the educated class that was more likely to go along with Hitler’s atrocities against humanity were doctors
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Makes sense ,, it’s a simple matter to kill someone with a chronic condition ,, far easier than treating them for years..and they were all on-board with eugenics...

[Chewbarkah]

That is a curious claim. Dr. Rabovsky must be a proctologist, since he sure seems to do a lot of talking out his ___.

Maybe there is secret “Gun Stamps” program, where government buys and hands out guns to inner city youth and Muslim immigrants, to arm Obama’s “civilian army”.

[marktwain]

I sent Dr. Rabovsky a civil email, asking for a citation on that assertion.

We shall see if he replies.

[cherry]

I will not spend one moment researching this guys premise on gun deaths...but I will almost guarantee that the gun deaths are from animals shooting the ferals and the ferals shooting back...

solve THAT problem Mr. Doctor and you could win the Nobel prize just like our beloved obammy...

the most serious threat to American lives is diabetes....

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Brilliantly said.

[MosesKnows]

There are 90 deaths due to firearms

That statement intends to mislead the low information crowd.

Then more absurdity. this brings us to the dominant public health issue of today: gun safety.

17,465 people died from overdosing on illicit drugs last year and another 25,760 people died from overdosing on prescription drugs.
That amounts to 118 per day.

In my opinion, the "dominant public health issue" of today could be drugs.?

Could the more than 30,700 Americans who died from alcohol-induced causes last year be a "dominant public health issue"?
That amounts to 84 deaths per day.

The bottom line is that alcohol consumption, drug consumption, and a person with a gun can kill you but a gun cannot.

[rktman]

Don’t even get me started on “medical, uh misadventures”.

[Talisker]

However -if you have friends or family that are clinically depressed or bi-polar it is only prudent to limit their access to firearms until they are well. This is no more radical than taking the car keys from a drunk friend on a Saturday night. Friends don’t let friends drive drunk, and friends don’t leave depressed friends alone in a room with a loaded gun.

What part of its none of your damn business don't you get? Drunk is literally incapacitated. Where's the threshold for depressed? How about theft of property? How about what you're describing IS tyranny?

Go suck a jackboot, you calculating, soft-peddling totalitarian POS.