OPINION: Gun violence is a health crisis

The Bakersfield Californian ^ | 03/12/2015 | William D. Bezdek , M.D.

[Mechanicos]

Communism is evil

[jsanders2001]

The MSM, the Left, and Obama’s obsession over controlling people’s access to guns is a mental health issue.

[Lion Den Dan]

What a Communist crock.

[The Toll]

Violence of all types is an African American Health Crisis to be more accurate by the numbers.

[kevkrom]

OPINION: Gun-grabbing nanny-staters are a threat to public health and safety.

(The difference is, my opinion can be backed up with actual facts.)

[ilovesarah2012]

Black Lives Matter - except when blacks are killing blacks.

[jsanders2001]

[Yosemitest]

Another attack on the Second Amendment.


“A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.”
King George III


The United States Citizens KNOW that they're going to have to fight TYRANTS in their own government.
You can not protect life, without the ability to take life.

While you are WAITING for the police to respond, someone could be losing their life.
All people of a responsible age should be armed.

As EternalVigilance reminded us:

The Second Amendment IS Pro-Life.

"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these:
First, a right to life;
Secondly, to liberty;
Thirdly, to property;
together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation,
commonly called the first law of nature...
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the entering into society,
to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights;
when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution,
is for the support, protection, and defence of those very rights;
the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property.
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right,
the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation.
The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty,
it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift
and voluntarily become a slave."




-- Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists

Click here to read the 12 page pamphlet.

Let us NEVER FORGET THAT !

Let's subjugate them to OUR end game, DUST!
"COMPROMISE" is a DIRTY word!
People who study the Bible know that COMPROMISE almost always leads to destruction.


It's time to mock the "Gun Control" Zombies!
"Gun Control" is a firm grip, steady breathing, accurate aim (developed by lots of practice), and a slow trigger pull.


The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
We need to learn from the Swiss and implement their "gun control measures" here in the United States right now, today!
These laws are the ones we should shove into the "2nd Amendment Haters" faces.

" Today, military service for Swiss males is universal. At about age 20, every Swiss male goes through 118 consecutive days of recruit training in the Rekrutenschule. ...

Even before required training begins, young men and women may take optional courses with the Swiss army's M57 assault rifle.
They keep that gun at home for three months and receive six half-day training sessions.

From age 21 to 32, a Swiss man serves as a "frontline" troop in the Auszug, and devotes three weeks a year (in eight of the 12 years) to continued training.
From age 33 to 42, he serves in the Landwehr (like America's National Guard); every few years, he reports for two-week training periods.
Finally, from ages 43, to 50, he serves in the Landsturm; in this period, he only spends 13 days total in "home guard courses."

Over a soldier's career he also spends scattered days on mandatory equipment inspections and required target practice.
Thus, in a 30-year mandatory military career, a Swiss man only spends about one year in direct military service.
Following discharge from the regular army, men serve on reserve status until age 50 (55 for officers).

By the Federal Constitution of 1874, military servicemen are given their first equipment, clothing and arms.
After the first training period, conscripts must keep gun, ammunition and equipment an ihrem Wohnort ("in their homes") until the end of their term of service.

Today, enlisted men are issued M57 AUTOMATIC assault rifles and officers are given pistol.
Each reservist is issued 24 rounds of ammunition in sealed packs for emergency use.
(Contrary to Handgun Control's claim that "all ammunition must be accounted for," the emergency ammunition is the only ammo that requires accounting.)

After discharge from service, the man is given a bolt rifle free from registration or obligation.
Starting in the 1994, the government will GIVE ex-reservists assault rifles. Officers carry pistols rather than rifles and are given their pistols the end of their service.

When the government adopts a new infantry rifle, it sells the old ones to the public.

Reservists are encouraged to buy MILITARY ammunition
(7.5 and 5.6mm-5.56 mm in other countries-for rifles and 9 and 7.65 mm Luger for pistols)
which is sold AT COST by the government, for target practice .
Non-military ammunition for long-gun hunting and .22 Long Rifle (LR) ammo are not subsidized, but are subject to NO sales controls.
Non-military non-hunting ammunition more powerful than .22 LR (such as .38 Spl.) is registered at the time of sale.

Swiss military ammo must be registered IF bought at a private store, BUT NEED NOT BE REGISTERED IF bought at a range.
The nation's 3,000 shooting ranges sell the overwhelming majority of ammunition.
Technically, ammunition bought at the range must be used at the range, but the rule is barely known and almost never obeyed.

The army SELLS a variety of machine guns, submachine guns, anti-tank weapons, anti-aircraft guns, howitzers and cannons.
Purchasers of these weapons require an EASILY OBTAINED cantonal license, and the weapons are registered.
In a nation of six million people, there are at least two million guns, including 600,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC assault rifles, half a million pistols, and numerous machine guns.
Virtually every home has a gun.

Besides SUBSIDIZED military surplus, the Swiss can buy other firearms easily too.
While long guns require NO special purchase procedures, handguns are sold only to those with a Waffenerwerbsschien (purchase certificate) issued by a cantonal authority.
A certificate is issued to every applicant over 18 who is not a criminal or mentally infirm.

There are NO restrictions on the carrying of long guns.
About half the cantons have strict permit procedures for carrying handguns, and the other half have NO rules at all.
There is NO discernible difference in the crime rate between the cantons as a result of the different policies.

Thanks to a lawsuit brought by the Swiss gun lobby, semi-automatic rifles require NO PURCHASE PERMIT and are NOT registered by the government.
Thus, the ONLY long guns registered by the government are FULL AUTOMATICS."

The Swiss have got it CORRECT !
Let's adopt THEIR LAWS !

Remember:

The beauty of the Second Amendment is
that it will not be needed
until they TRY to take it.

Read Second Amendment: It’s Not About Hunting, IT'S ABOUT TYRANNY .

[ConservativeInPA]

They can jam their proposed six steps when the sun doesn’t shine.

[theBuckwheat]

As with everything liberal, facts are only useful when the help drive the agenda forward.

Malpractice by physicians, nurses and hospital staff is a health crisis that costs many more deaths than the criminal use of firearms.

Then there is abuse of OTC drugs.

A simple example:

Acetaminophen and the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group: lowering the risks of hepatic failure.

Lee WM1.

Abstract

Acetaminophen overdose is the leading cause for calls to Poison Control Centers (>100,000/year) and accounts for more than 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and an estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure each year. Data from the U.S. Acute Liver Failure Study Group registry of more than 700 patients with acute liver failure across the United States implicates acetaminophen poisoning in nearly 50% of all acute liver failure in this country. Available in many single or combination products, acetaminophen produces more than 1 billion US dollars in annual sales for Tylenol products alone. It is heavily marketed for its safety compared to nonsteroidal analgesics. By enabling self-diagnosis and treatment of minor aches and pains, its benefits are said by the Food and Drug Administration to outweigh its risks. It still must be asked: Is this amount of injury and death really acceptable for an over-the-counter pain reliever?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15239078

[MaxMax]

And it cannot work with an Armed nation and a Constitution that protects that natural right.

If the Democrats want the 2nd Amendment nullified they should just
try to repeal the 2nd Amendment, and Churches while they're there. Go ahead
and try it. Oh, and that 10th Amendment thing inhibits the Feds for so
many other various reasons. And the 14th, 16th, OH SCREW IT, just get
rid of the whole damned thing and replace it with the Communist manifesto
so they can just order the Police to kill people who disagree with them.

[barefoot_hiker]

This crap again? Go away Doc.

[Mouton]

and so it begins. This will morph into a move to get rid of 2A because it conflicts with the general welfare comment in the preamble.

[PapaBear3625]

Bureau of Justice Statistics, "State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-2002
Violent Felons in Large Urban Counties":

* Seventy percent of violent felons had a prior arrest 
record, and 57% had at least one prior arrest for a 
felony. Sixty-seven percent of murderers and 73% of 
those convicted of robbery or assault had an arrest 
record.

* A majority (56%) of violent felons had a prior 
conviction record. Thirty-eight percent had a prior 
felony conviction and 15% had a previous conviction 
for a violent felony. 

...
Race and ethnicity

Forty-one percent of violent felons were black, non-
Hispanic , 30% were Hispanic, and 26% were white, 
non-Hispanic. Blacks (46%) comprised a higher 
percentage of murderers than Hispanics (27%) or 
whites (23%).

"Stop and frisk" conducted on members of high-risk groups would be much more effective in lowering gun homicide rates.

[certrtwngnut]

I propose a law to cull prospective psychiatrists & lawyers from the herd.

[Texas Eagle]

The American College of Physicians, combined with the American Bar Association

Great. What could go wrong there.

[PROCON]

In a white paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine

Now it makes sense.

[jsanders2001]

> “In addition, the number of injuries caused by guns is more than double the death number.”

This line kills the credibility of his argument and makes it ound like political grandstanding IMO. Where in the hell would they come up with this data where it could have any degree of accuracy? This sounds like another leftist make up the figures on the fly statement. Leftists love to make up $hip as they go along. It just sounds contrived to me

[Jonah Hex]

Might training in which the officer is taught to first fall prostrate to the ground be a more-efficient training exercise?

"Prostrate - stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission" Merriam-Webster

Just bend over and take it, eh, Doc?