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After doctors' associations put out a statement warning of the public health dangers of a gun culture based on growing research, and pushing for the need for funding for more research, and the resultant devastation they are seeing daily in their emergency rooms and operating rooms, the NRA tweeted "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," as if public health is not in their purview. Their findings, after all, were interfering with propaganda and marketing efforts that "guns keep you safe".
Doctors have now pushed back in turn in turn.
The right, of course, was never that interested in findings or research. Facts have no bearing in forming their worldview. They have dismissed a unanimous consensus and formal statements from every single scientific organization on the planet about the dangers of global warming, choosing instead to support a real estate guy from Manhattan who has dismissed it all as a "Chinese hoax". They still pass tax plans on the premise of trickle down economics. Many of them even still insist the Earth is only 6000 years old. So even if there is further research and more facts and observations become available, don't expect it to impress any of them if it doesn't support their already-existing notions.
But still, we need to learn more facts. The research bans and gag orders pushed by the NRA in congress must be repealed. We need to start caring about facts again.
Doctors have now pushed back in turn in turn.
"Physicians have been responding to the NRA on Twitter with medical research on gun violence.
"Reasonable gun control results in saving lives," wrote Mary Brandt, MD, a pediatric surgeon at Houston-based Texas Children's Hospital and professor of surgery, pediatrics and medical ethics at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Dr. Brandt shared study abstracts that found stricter gun control laws result in fewer injuries and deaths.
Esther Choo, MD, an emergency physician and associate professor at the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, wrote, "We are not anti-gun: we are anti-bullet holes in our patients."
The Annals of Internal Medicine, the journal for the college of physicians, tweeted a link to journal articles about firearm safety: "The NRA tells doctors to 'stay in their lane' re #GunViolence. We wish we could. Instead, we pledge to talk to our patients about gun violence whenever risk factors are present."
Tomas Diaz, MD, an emergency physician at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote, "Gun violence is very much our lane. And advocating for those who have lost their lives and loved ones is our duty."
The CDC on Nov. 5 published data indicating gun deaths rose in 2015-16 after a few years in which gun-related deaths dropped. The report links the increase to suicides and violent crime."
Physicians respond after NRA tells 'self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane'
The right, of course, was never that interested in findings or research. Facts have no bearing in forming their worldview. They have dismissed a unanimous consensus and formal statements from every single scientific organization on the planet about the dangers of global warming, choosing instead to support a real estate guy from Manhattan who has dismissed it all as a "Chinese hoax". They still pass tax plans on the premise of trickle down economics. Many of them even still insist the Earth is only 6000 years old. So even if there is further research and more facts and observations become available, don't expect it to impress any of them if it doesn't support their already-existing notions.
But still, we need to learn more facts. The research bans and gag orders pushed by the NRA in congress must be repealed. We need to start caring about facts again.