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AAFP Joins Unified Effort on Gun Violence, Physician Free Speech
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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"About 300 million guns are privately owned in the United States -- a nation of about 320 million people. And each year, more than 32,000 people in this country die from firearm-related violence, suicides and accidents."
"Those numbers -- both the highest among industrialized countries -- led the AAFP and seven other health professional organizations to join the American Bar Association (ABA) in a call for policies to reduce firearm-related injuries and deaths in the United States and to protect physicians' free speech rights to discuss gun ownership with patients."
"The coalition's principles and consensus-based recommendations are outlined in a paper(www.annals.org) published online Feb. 23 in Annals of Internal Medicine." ... |
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Millwright66
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| Seems to me patients' privacy/confidence needs far exceeds the desires of a profession with ample blood on its hands. Nor is there any particular recourse afforded patients if some member of a physician demanding such otre' information as gun ownership staff should abuse that personal information or knowledge. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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