The AMA Versus The Gun Owner

By Tom Knighton

The American Medical Association is one of those names people are conditioned to trust. Their recommendations guide so much of our lives, from what we eat to how much we sleep. People take AMA recommendations seriously, even if they don’t hear about them from their physician.

However, the AMA is also a political animal. They seek to push an agenda, which would make sense when they’re looking at the overall health of the American public.

Unfortunately, they’re also pushing an anti-gun agenda, one the Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership want to counter.

The AMA just announced that it will make an “unprecedented” push for more gun control laws through resolutions presented at its House of Delegates at its next annual meeting June 9-13. This is not really unprecedented, as the AMA has been advocating anti-gun measures for three decades now, along with many co-conspirator specialty associations. But it is a way for it to jump on the current popular bandwagon for restricting guns since some of the teenagers from the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Valentine’s Day shootings have become media celebrities.

Jumping aboard progressive bandwagons is the main tactic left to the AMA to wield influence, since it now …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms