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2018-09-19 -Land of the Free
Stanford Doctors: It's Time To Ban All Semi-Automatic Firearms
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Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-19 01:22|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Zip it up morons.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-09-19 02:14||   2018-09-19 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 "Department of Counterinsurgency!
Your Second Amendment emergency?
Try treating with ointment
Or make an appointment
For matters of medical urgency."
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 02:23||   2018-09-19 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 "I think it's the big one," sez Sanford
To the gatekeeping bastard that answered.
Fred reckons the seconds,
Elizabeth beckons...
"Press '6' for main menu," sez Stanford.

Meh. Getting a little Mad Max minimalist.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 02:28||   2018-09-19 02:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Self-Appointed Firearms Experts?
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 02:30||   2018-09-19 02:30|| Front Page Top

#5 retired U.S. Air Force colonel and flight surgeon who was deployed six times

Then again... assuming he was treating trauma, who the hell am I to diss a guy like that? I'll shut up now.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 02:33||   2018-09-19 02:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Guns kill only a small fraction of people compared to mistakes and bungling in hospitals. Physician, heal thyself.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-09-19 03:33||   2018-09-19 03:33|| Front Page Top

#7 The doctor makes no mention of the "more than 115 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids" each foking day.

Link
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-19 06:41||   2018-09-19 06:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Zenobia, he was a flight surgeon for the Air Force. I doubt any of his patients ever came under fire, let alone got hit.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-09-19 07:16||   2018-09-19 07:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Ref #8: The occasional flight physical.
Lower back problems and elbow strains. The usual golf injuries.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-09-19 07:21||   2018-09-19 07:21|| Front Page Top

#10 Are they constitutional scholars too? Stay in your lane, jerkwads.

Remember: Not all gun grabbers are fascists, but all fascists are gun grabbers.
Posted by regular joe 2018-09-19 08:29||   2018-09-19 08:29|| Front Page Top

#11 Time to ban Stanford Doctors.
Posted by DarthVader 2018-09-19 09:09||   2018-09-19 09:09|| Front Page Top

#12 Their real concern is all the gunshot wounds they see in their emergency rooms due to gangs shooting illegally acquired handguns at all in the vicinity, but that is the result of a two-fold law enforcement problem: international narco-gangs having sneaked their people into America illegally to take over the local immigrant gangs, and the police and courts not being permitted to act seriously against such miscreants.

A gun ban addresses the effect of illegal handgun onership by gangsters, not the cause, and targets the law-abiding who are not in either the perpetrating population or the victim population.

File under Doctors Diagnosing Badly.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-19 09:56||   2018-09-19 09:56|| Front Page Top

#13 What a lame acronym.

And in the age of acronyms.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-19 10:20||   2018-09-19 10:20|| Front Page Top

#14 TW, I am not an expert, but I'm told by some that claim to be that a lot of the shooting around the Madison area is "respect" and "revenge" related, though drug conflicts are well represented too.
Posted by james  2018-09-19 10:53|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2018-09-19 10:53|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe the NRA could initiate advocacy group - Better Hospital and Doctors - BHAD - pronounced BAD.
Posted by Bobby 2018-09-19 11:17||   2018-09-19 11:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Doctors' Offices for Reduced Killings.
Posted by swksvolFF 2018-09-19 12:43||   2018-09-19 12:43|| Front Page Top

#17 Re #8, #9 on flight surgeons

Thanks, and ouch. I even quoted that, didn't I? Pretty familiar with the flight surgeons' gig. I blame sleeplessness! And maybe an overactive subconscious (the only FS I knew well was of a completely different mindset than Doc Winslow).
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 12:49||   2018-09-19 12:49|| Front Page Top

#18 DORK... awesome.

Doctors against Murder Now ("daaa-yummm")
Physicians against Malpractice ("paaamp")




Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 12:52||   2018-09-19 12:52|| Front Page Top

#19 Silly Assholes Fear Explosions
Posted by magpie 2018-09-19 12:56||   2018-09-19 12:56|| Front Page Top

#20 Dunno those newlines are coming from (noticed that before). Limerick reflex? I'll watch it.
Physicians against Preventable Accidents
Butchers Improving the Community's Health
Physicians and Medical Professionals against Handgun Ownership
Quacks United to Ethically End Recidivism
Meh. Like DORK.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-09-19 13:01||   2018-09-19 13:01|| Front Page Top

#21 trailing wife, I could be wrong but if this is the Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley they aren't likely to see a lot of gang violence. Nearby Oakland and San Jose have gangs but they also have fine hospitals that would be much closer. East Palo Alto used to have gangs but I think they've been gentrified out of business.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-09-19 14:08||   2018-09-19 14:08|| Front Page Top

#22 as an ex-ass't hospital administrator, I have learned that most docs are idiot-savants and you have to take the savant part on faith.
Posted by Thulet Spawn of the Boskonians1504 2018-09-19 18:28||   2018-09-19 18:28|| Front Page Top

#23 a lot of the shooting around the Madison area is "respect" and "revenge" related,

james, they could easily be the same people. Gang culture is notorious for such nonsense.

if this is the Stanford in the heart of Silicon Valley they aren't likely to see a lot of gang violence.

But they’ll know of it, rjschwarz. Philosophy doesn’t require actual experence, and is often hindered by it. ;-)

and you have to take the savant part on faith.

The problem with to many specialists looking outside their area of expertise — but deep understanding in one area does not necessarily translate to deep understanding in an unrelated area.
Posted by trailing wife 2018-09-19 22:01||   2018-09-19 22:01|| Front Page Top

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