American College of Surgeons Wants to Have a Conversation About Your Guns

By Ammoland

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- The staid American College of Surgeons (ACS) has mostly kept out of the culture wars against American gun owners started years ago by other organized medicine groups.

But now they want to push gun prohibitionists’ political goals, including banning America’s favorite firearms. And although they will deny it, they don’t want any back talk from freedom-loving Americans.

Surgeons deal with the immediate damage of gun crime, treating victims of gunshot wounds in the emergency department and operating room. Trauma surgery is demanding, stressful, and risky to the surgeon, who must routinely deal with families of the criminals who are often their patients. Even more than other doctors, trauma surgeons are routinely dragged into court when treatment results are less than perfect.

So you would think the ACS would have enough work just looking after the interests of their members. But instead, its leaders want to devote the organization’s resources and political capital to pushing for more gun control.

In March the ACS’s Committee on Trauma held a <a class="colorbox" href="http://www.acepnow.com/article/american-college-surgeons-considers-promoting-firearm-safety-injury-prevention/#comment-103849" …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand