"I answer doctors who oppose gun violence and I generally have a standard response by now. Since we're talking about safety at the core of the discussion, it's fair to say that their editorials and pleadings to reduce gun violence wind up killing the patient, that is, the disarmed community.
"Pediatricians who ask kids to rat out their parents for guns in the home is the equivalent of operating on the in-office patient and not noticing that he has stopped breathing. The focus is so narrow on so-called 'gun violence' that it ignores who is doing the shooting, and in every case in the pediatrician's office, it isn't their patient's parents. Why the nosey probe and punishment where there is no chance of finding the disease? The problem lies in misinformation and the very idea that gun violence is a disease.
Before I became a liberty writer, I was a Los Angeles Paramedic. I saw criminal shootings and wondered why the Paramedics aren't seeing self-defense shootings in equal numbers. I found out, and it led me to elaborate on that question and how it impacts all of our other rights. Like all of gun control, doctors who oppose gun ownership will never touch violence and might as well treat a patient and not notice he has stopped breathing. They are missing a critical point, if it is safety we're talking about."
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