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US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 8:17 am
by 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....

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:16 am
by 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.

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 9:21 am
by 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? :headscratch

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 10:08 am
by Cedar Park Dad
I hope so! :thumbs2: :thumbs2: :thumbs2:

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 12:53 pm
by 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/

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:04 pm
by mojo84
Yeah, and a lot of those same docs lobbied for Obamacare. Now many of them are sorry they did.

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:26 pm
by cb1000rider
mamabearCali wrote: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.

Re: US doctors decry 'political blackmail' by gun lobby

Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:31 am
by MeMelYup
Try this article. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09 ... -hospitals" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;