Gee, Officer Krupke,
We're down on our knees,
'Cause no one wants a fellow with a social disease.
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).
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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?
