Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Is 'Gun Safety' Prescribed by Kaiser Permanente Based on Science or Politics?

The "Safety Guide" is a tool for promoting that agenda, and a useful one, because it carries the weight of perceived medical authority, to which many simply defer without question. Being a peer, Woolley doesn't have to, and he demonstrates how the "defensive value of guns" is "glaringly omitted" from the tract, that their "deterrent value is ignored," that some households have higher risks than most, that claims are carefully worded to produce a desired reaction, that evidence is inconsistently evaluated, and that the whole damned effort smacks of a legislative, rather than a medical agenda. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column diagnoses an epidemic of hoplophobia in the medical community and isolates a likely pathogen.

Open wide, say "ahhh" and share the link?

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