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Originally Posted by senior citizen
From a totally different perspective....that of an emergency room physician......who sees the physical damage done by gun violence first hand......guns which have found their way into the wrong hands.
http://www.sacramentotoday.net/news/templates/community.asp?articleid=1610
HBO Documentary features U.C. Davis Doctor
Please take the time to read this, as seen from the experienced emergency room doctor who cares for those injured by gun violence, who just happens to be a family member of our son.
We recall watching the documentary awhile back....and remember being very proud of him. He has devoted his life to this.....
""HBO documentary notes that there are an estimated 250 million guns in the United States today, and over the past dozen years guns purchased both legally and illegally have found their way into the wrong hands, resulting in a string of deadly shootings around the nation. ""
""I invited the documentary crew to our medical center because its crucial that people better understand the level of gun violence that emergency and trauma teams around the country deal with week in and week out, said Wintemute, who has often used his free time to go undercover at gun shows and investigate how illegal gun sales are made. My immediate goal is always focused on saving lives in our emergency room. But my larger focus has been on identifying and reducing the very causes of gun violence that injure or kill the people my colleagues and I see all too often. ""
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This does nothing to refute the statistics that I posted. Yes, each and every gunshot incident is horrible, but there are just not as many as anti gun activists would like us to believe. In fact in this story, it is noted that this emergency center treats 4,750 trauma cases each year. It wants us to think that they are all gunshot cases. They are not. This plays on our emotions rather than logic by showing the victims of gunshots and the people who have the horrible job of caring for them.
Intellectually or logically, you would identify and quantify the problem and then seek reasonable solutions.
If they showed enough video of people who had been seriously injured in automobile accidents, we'd be talking about banning cars and having psychological screening before allowing people to get a drivers license. Maybe raising the legal age for driving. Make cars more difficult to get. But that would be appealing to out emotions as opposed to logic.
Like I said, deaths from gun shot wounds is at an all time low or very close to an all time low.