Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
[From "West Side Story"]
Mike comments on the USA Today piece about the new push for the old deception to treat guns as a public health issue (I discussed this briefly on Sunday with Mark Walters on Armed American Radio). [Read]
I've got to get back into the next installment of the unfolding Shipley story, but wanted to make a few quick points.
First, note one of the collectivist pseudo-scientists at the center of this is none other than the Hero of Medicine and star of "Where's Wintemute?"
Next, one of the assertions they make that leaves a door wide open: If "gun violence" is a "disease," let's see if it behaves like others. One of the things about a contagion is it spreads throughout a population, leveling those who come in contact with it, bringing down the high and the low without regard for trivial superficial social trappings, none of which result in immunity to basic biology where plague is concerned.
Now we need to ask if some segments of the populace are more susceptible to the "disease" and if some show an inexplicable immunity. I would submit that the 4+ million members of the NRA provide a good representative and statistically-valid sample of the latter. After all, they're one of the most heavily-armed populations on the planet, yet when was the last time you read about one of them doing a turf war drive-by or a liquor store robbery? Why are there no recurring headlines documenting their being driven to kill because of "easy access" to guns?
Wouldn't a responsible methodology now consider the factors that exacerbate susceptibility for "gun violence" in one group and confer immunity in the other?
Otherwise, will the federal grant recipients at the Firearm Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin suggest that the contagious be quarantined?
I don't suppose it occurs to those who would impose a freedom quarantine on all of us that most "social diseases" are pretty much preventable with self-control and responsible behavior, like being mindful of who you choose to associate with and what you choose to do with them, and that the explanation for immunity lies therein?
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After my Dad died in 2007 my brother, who still lives there in the house, asked me in 2010 after the estate was settled to come up and get some of his guns. I ended up with about 15 of his guns added to what I already had. My brother kept a few for himself including the Browning shotgun we both prized, but I didn't put up a fight for it. If my brother wanted it he could have it. I said all that to say this. As far as easy access to guns is concerned it don't get any easier to access a firearm than from the ones you already have. It's one of the main things I never understood about 3 day waiting periods for handguns. I don't know this for a fact but surmise very few if any murders were committed by first time gun buyers on a spur of the moment desire to kill someone only to realize they now have to go somewhere and buy a gun first. That process alone could easily take an hour or two and most rational people will come to there senses in less time than that.
I know about Wintemute, I lived in the SF Bay area for 13 years, during which he was most active.
He had his contact phone number on speed dial in a number of cities, with instructions to ONLY call him if there was a body at a crime scene.
Wintemute is an emergency room physician, which is where you go when your skills are not, shall we say, above the minimum acceptable in other fields of medicine. He wasn't an ER surgeon, a whole other class of MD, but a band aid/pill pusher. Suffice it to say, ER doctors don't earn very large salaries, most aren't self employed with privileges, but are employed directly by the hospital ER funding.
Wintemute is a sorry excuse of a human being, trying and sometimes succeeding in earning his living by dancing in the blood of the dead.
He always disgusted me, he still does.
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