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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 10:58 PM Original message |
Handgun Violence, Public Health, and the Law ( New Eng Jour Med) |
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virginia mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. Odd... |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 11:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. New Eng Jour Med is looking at the issue as a public health issue, |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 11:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. gun cultists refuse to look at the epidemiological aspects |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 11:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
24. Why the nasty language? |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 10:49 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. They politicize it by lowering the ordinarily rigorous standards of review... |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 03:00 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. How many of the handguns used in murders were legal... |
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varkam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 01:03 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. "Need to deal with the CRIME, and NOT, an inanimate object." |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 10:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. The United States' suicide rate is far lower than that of most nations with strict gun controls... |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 11:31 PM Response to Original message |
3. SCOTUS cannot give a court decision that broadened gun rights. It can give a decision that |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-19-08 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. recommend. -- among other things -- guns result in a public health issue. |
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newfie11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 09:32 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. This has been brought up on other threads |
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MaryCeleste (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
8. Note they consider self defense shootings homicides in the report |
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Fire_Medic_Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 11:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
23. Thanks Mary |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Mar-20-08 10:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. Traffic fatalities for the same period |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 09:13 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Now |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 09:43 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. I only responded to the OP's statement that guns are a health issue |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 10:02 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I agree |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 10:08 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. But you have to see the result, not the intent |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 10:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I think a more relevant comparison would be guns and alcohol. |
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cosmik debris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. I'm not too sure about that |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 12:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. According to the CDC, alcohol kills 100,000 Americans annually. |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. An outright ban wouldn't work |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:10 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Granted. That would require a different political climate, though... |
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Tumbulu (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 11:12 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. thank you for your good posts |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-08-08 10:50 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. I have no real problem with this |
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dropkickpa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-08-08 04:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. This all sounds good to me |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-08-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Herein lies the (highly implausible) only potential solution |
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