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Sunday, August 12, 2012

2nd Amendment Strangled by Regulation

By JW Ross

The Universal Health Care Bill is turning out to be the Trojan Horse that the critics predicted.

The bill is written with such broad strokes that almost "anything" can be construed to be under the purview of "health care" (and health care administrators).

Now it is the 2nd Amendment.

With any game changing laws on the "right to own and bear arms" awaiting the appointment of a new justice to the Supreme Court, opponents are now trying to regulate guns as if they were a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol?

Doctors call for public-health approach to controlling gun violence
By Marilynn Marchione, The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE -- Is a gun like a virus, a car, tobacco or alcohol?

Yes! say public-health experts, who in the wake of recent mass shootings are calling for a fresh look at gun violence as a social disease.

What we need, they say, is a public-health approach to the problem, like the highway safety measures, product changes and driving laws that slashed deaths from car crashes decades ago, even as the number of vehicles on the road rose.

One example: Guardrails are now curved to the ground instead of having sharp metal ends that pose a hazard in a crash.
"People used to spear themselves and we blamed the drivers for that," said Dr. Garen Wintemute, an emergency medicine professor who directs the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis.

It wasn't enough back then to curb deaths just by trying to make people better drivers, and it isn't enough now to tackle gun violence by focusing solely on the people doing the shooting, he and other doctors say.

They want a science-based, pragmatic approach based on the reality of a society saturated with guns and seek better ways of preventing harm from them.

The need for a new approach crystallized last Sunday for one of the nation's leading gun violence experts, Dr. Stephen Hargarten. He found himself treating victims of the Sikh temple shootings at the emergency department he heads in Milwaukee. Seven people were killed, including the gunman.

It happened two weeks after the shooting that killed 12 people and injured 58 at a movie theater in Colorado, and two days before a man pleaded guilty to killing six people and wounding 13, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in Tucson, Ariz., last year.

"What I'm struggling with is, is this the new social norm? This is what we're going to have to live with if we have more personal access to firearms," said Hargarten, emergency medicine chief at Froedtert Hospital and director of the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "We have a public-health issue to discuss. Do we wait for the next outbreak or is there something we can do to prevent it?"

Posted Posted Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/08/11/4174586/doctors-call-for-public-health.html#storylink=cpy

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