In wake of mass shootings, doctors target guns as a social disease
Stephen W. Hargarten
In this Aug. 8, 2012 photo, Dr. Stephen W. Hargarten poses for a photo at Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Hargarten helped many of the victims of Sunday's shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)
Columbine Anniversary
FILE - In this April 20, 1999, file photo unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colo. Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama’s White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 innocents in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver. Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms. Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shootings in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only. (AP Photo/Kevin Higley, File)
Henry Stawinski, Mark Magaw
Prince George's County Police Chief Mark Magaw listens at left as Deputy Chief Henry Stawinski, with the Bureau of Forensic Science and Intelligence, speaks at a news conference at the Prince George's County Police Headquarters in Palmer Park, Md., Friday, July 27, 2012, to discuss a suspect who they say was plotting a shooting in his workplace. Police in Maryland say a man who called himself "a joker" and threatened to shoot up his workplace was in the process of being fired. Police say the 28-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning. Investigators said he was wearing a T-shirt that said "Guns don't kill people. I do." He was taken into custody for an emergency mental health evaluation and charges are pending. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Gun Politics
FILE - In this April 16, 2007, file photo, state and local police wait for a building to be cleared by police on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Va., following a shooting incident. Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. And Barack Obama’s White House pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 innocents in a mass shooting at a new Batman movie screening in suburban Denver. Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms. Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shootings in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
Barack Obama
In this July 20, 2012, photo, President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the Aurora, Colo., shooting at an campaign event at the Harborside Event Center in Ft. Myers, Fla. Gun control advocates sputter at their own impotence. The National Rifle Association is politically ascendant. Obama pledges to safeguard the Second Amendment in its first official response to the deaths of at least 12 innocents in the mass shooting at the new Batman movie screening. Once, every highly publicized outbreak of gun violence produced strong calls from Democrats and a few Republicans for tougher controls on firearms. Now those pleas are muted, a political paradox that’s grown more pronounced in an era scarred by Columbine, Virginia Tech, the wounding of a congresswoman and now the shootings in a suburban movie theater where carnage is expected on-screen only. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Leon Ceniceros posted at 12:28 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
What a hoot.....talk about the "pot calling the kettle black"....lol.
Doctors are all over the news day in and day out for something or other...and it's usually the..."other".
Talk about a crime, nowadays you go see the doctor for a lousy physical (blood test, finger wave, "cough", stethescope check and thumping twice on the chest and twice on the back, an X-ray and maybe an EKG but usually just a blood pressure check and you see a $1200.00 bill going to Uncle Sam for a 30minute "office visit".
Usually you get to see your doctor for a checkup visit for 5-10 minutes at the most and he gives you 3-5 prescriptions (the cost depends on if you have private insurance, Medicaid or the pits....aka...Medicare).
Just like obesity, doc.....no one forces food down your throat......and no one but the shooter pulls the trigger on a gun.
Donuts don't kill, eating the donut is what kills you.
Guns don't kill, the person that pulls the trigger is the killer.
Juggernaut8000 posted at 12:35 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
What a stupid analogy calling guns a social disease. The only disease in our society is people not taking responsibility for their own actions. People are already suing the movie theatre and film studio for the Aurora, CO shooting.
If our criminal justice system wasn't pathetically broken and would execute James Holmes on national television that evening, these tragedies wouldn't happen.
Dale Whiting posted at 1:19 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
Right on, Leon!
Your comment is excellent. However where you hoped to be arguing against this piece, showing how poor today's socialized medicine is and in doing so cast dispesions on efforts to reign in guns, you actually point out the flaws which "Obamacare" will be addressing, i.e. fraud and abuse of Medicaid and Medicare.
Perhaps you can get a few moments to speak at the upcoming Democratic National Convention! I'd love to hear you continue on with this theme of your!
Suetlg posted at 2:14 pm on Sat, Aug 11, 2012.
All these Experts should have their licenses suspended!!!! Maybe if these Medical Experts would stop CONDUCTING HUMAN Research - using experimental drugs - (wonder if Holmes in theater shootings who was Involved in Brain/Physco
Studies(Human Research?) on Volunteers(students?) and giving out physco drugs and NOT Keeping Very Close monitoring of individuals they give MIND
ALTERING DRUGS to - so its the MEDICAL EXPERTS and the like who are do
blame - not guns or normal people who own guns who don't go out and kill other
people!!!!
nazdweller posted at 8:21 am on Mon, Aug 13, 2012.
Not one mention of Hollywood's glorification of violence. Especially their portrayal of gun violence. You can't hardly watch TV or go to a movie without violent content. Funny how Hollywood is against such things but sell their garbage to us like a crack dealer.