"In June, the Institute of Medicine published a preliminary report in response to the Obama Memorandum, claiming the president’s public health approach to gun violence would “… help… develop effective policies to reduce its occurrence and impact in the U.S.” And what “effective policies” for the control of gun violence are favored by medical and public health professionals? “A total handgun eradication program might be useful toward this end…” wrote Nicholas Johnson in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Doctors Katherine Christoffel and Robert Tanz of the Children’s Hospital in Chicago proudly announced a plan “…to do to handguns what their profession has done to cigarettes … turn gun ownership from a personal-choice issue to a repulsive, anti-social health hazard.” It seems Americans will have to hang onto their gun rights just a little tighter as Barack Obama looks to the nation’s doctors to “cure” what her politicians could not–America’s addiction to freedom."
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 00:04:06 +0000
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