US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

[gthaustex]

An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine complains that the NRA is using political blackmail to fight against the confirmation of nominee for US Surgeon General.

http://news.yahoo.com/us-doctors-decry- ... 06341.html

The nominee is well known to have strong anti-gun views.

Liberals are all for making your voice heard unless it works against them....

[NordicTexan]

Yahoo seems to becoming increasingly more Liberal, and anti 2A. The number of anti gun stories on the Yahoo home page seems to really gone up. I remember a time whe it was at least sort of balanced with an occasional convervative view poit but that seems to have evaporated. I getting to a point where I don't really want to use that site for information at all.

[Jaguar]

These views are "unsurprising" given the more than 30,000 firearm deaths in the United States each year, the editorial said.

Where do they get their numbers?

[Cedar Park Dad]

I hope so!

[mamabearCali]

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

30K a year is a least a 1/3 of what damage physicians do. 98K-210K a year die by their mistakes.

A link http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... hospitals/

[mojo84]

Yeah, and a lot of those same docs lobbied for Obamacare. Now many of them are sorry they did.

[cb1000rider]

Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Exactly... This is "waa" by a group who uses similar tools to accomplish political goals. It's done on both sides.

[MeMelYup]

Try this article. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09 ... -hospitals" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;