NRA opens social media war with doctors over guns

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A social media war erupted between doctors and the National Rifle Association Thursday, just as 12 people were shot and killed at a California nightclub and hours before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new figures showing gun deaths on the rise across the country.

Doctors and medical officials have increasingly taken on gun violence as a public health issue. Last month, the American College of Physicians issued new guidelines for doctors to follow in helping protect patients from firearms dangers, and published several reports on gun violence in its flagship publication, the Annals of Internal Medicine.

"We need to ask our patients about firearms, counsel them on safe firearm behaviors, and take further action when an imminent hazard is present," Dr. Garen Wintemute, of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California Davis Medical Center, wrote in one editorial in the magazine.

On Wednesday, the NRA took issue with the ACP, which represents more than 150,000 internal medicine specialists. "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the group tweeted.

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This is America and people have a right to their opinion. The health and welfare of people in this country due to fire arms is within the doctors' lane.

[nolabear]

1. Yeah, they don't say that when they're the ones bleeding..

How dare doctors try to help keep people from having their bodies blown apart! Smug, edumacated elitists!

[gratuitous]

2. "Stay in their lane"

Maybe the doctors are just tired of trying to put your fuck-ups back together, NRA. Because it's a damn sure bet you fuckers aren't around when the bullets stop flying and the casualties need to be attended to.

[SMC22307]

3. These NRA fuckers needs to spend time in trauma bays...

when gunshot victims arrive, especially those from mass shootings. And that includes every politician licking the NRA's boots.

[aikoaiko]

4. Even as a RKBA guy, I'm fine with doctors asking about counseling safe firearm behavior

and taking action when an imminent hazard is present.

I do take issue with doctors who won't treat patients simply because the patients don't want to discuss their firearms.

I'd also like to see what they mean by counseling patients on safe firearm behaviors

[MadLinguist]

5. Lanes? Lobbying for gun makers, scoring politicians on gun-humpiness

from an organization that started as a gun safety group. The NRA has metastasized so far out of any conception of a lane that they don't have the right to talk about what a lane even *IS*! These fuqqers only think about lanes when they meet opposition.