NRA & The Surgeon General

[crowded]

And the whole issue of public health risk is hilarious to me.
I wonder if this Doctor asks his patients if they own cars, or steak knives? There have been two murders by stabbing near my hometown in the past week.
Still waiting on the wave of "a knife in your home only increases the risk of danger" articles to come across the AP wire.

I just drank four bottles of liquid that had "his" warning on it. What was that there for? Because they paid the private company I bought it from for advertising space? It was prominent. Those distillery and breweries must make serious bank of government benevolence.

 

[UpaLoompa]

There are multiple ways a SG or any appointee/elected official/etc. could influence policy or further shift a national debate toward his/her viewpoint. I don't think this issue is a "controversy" necessarily, but I do question the motives and overall competence of an otherwise respected Doctor who needlessly inserts himself into an issue that doesn't involve him.
If the guy is so smart, why not just ignore/avoid this issue because it doesn't really need his input, so as to not limit his own ascendance into power? Either he's really not that smart or he's that arrogant that he thought this belief wouldn't cause him problems and limit his climb.
I'm betting on the latter.

Or, going out on a limb here, like a lot of people not from rural areas he has a much different view of guns than you or I might and doesn't care so much about his "ascent into power" and actually thinks there is a gun problem.

 

[UpaLoompa]

It escalated a long time ago.

Only for you. You seriously dislike having your positions challenged, it's quite cute.