Posted October 8, 2018 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Far too many anti-gun doctors use their status as physicians to lend a certain gravitas to their gun-grabbing diatribes. They may even be motivated by their profession to try and stamp out the scourge of gun violence.

I disagree with them and argue it’s often none of their business except as a private citizen, but that’s neither here nor there.

What is, however, is when a doctor writing in a medical journal, advocates for measures his own research says are useless.

Doctor Garen Wintemute’s latest contribution to “the prevention of firearm violence” comes in the form of a Perspective column published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Wintemute, you may recall, is the Director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program and the UC Firearm Violence Research Center. He proposes a two-prong solution to stop mass shootings.

The solution, according to Doctor Wintemute? So-called “comprehensive background checks” and emergency protective orders, which “allow courts to have firearms removed temporarily from people who pose an imminent hazard to others or themselves but are not members of a prohibited class.”

Wintemute begins with a list of six mass shootings, the perpetrators of which all passed background checks. There …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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