As I've grown older, I've found that it's impossible for me to determine what annoys me most in life. That's because we live in a world and in a time when there are so many people being stupid and/or vile that it's just too hard to determine, especially as there seems to be competition for who can be the absolute worst.
But one thing consistently near the top is doctors who take their own experiences in the emergency rooms and decide that makes them an expert on gun policy.
They see just a smidgeon of what guns are used for and decide that, especially because they're highly educated, they know more than the rest of us based on what they see professionally and literally nothing else.
And in Minnesota, some of the doctors who treated Annunciation victims are trying to get tough with folks.
Minnesota health care leaders gathered Thursday at the state Capitol to demand that Gov. Tim Walz call a special session to pass gun violence legislation more than a month after the Annunciation Catholic Church and School shooting in Minneapolis.
Joined by doctors who cared for Annunciation victims, they called for four gun control measures: a ban on assault-style weapons, a ban on high-capacity magazines, safe storage laws, and the removal of the local preemption law that prohibits cities from enacting local gun control.
“This is no longer a friendly request from their local doctors,” said Dr. Lisa Mattson, president of the Minnesota Medical Association. “This is a demand from the tens of thousands of physicians across the state who know firearm violence for what it is: a public health crisis.”
You hear that? It's not a friendly request, but a demand.
And if they don't get what they demand, then what? What are they going to do?
Absolutely nothing. Because of their beloved American Medical Association, the number of physicians in this country is kept pretty low. This keeps the skills of a doctor in demand, but it also means they don't have the numbers to actually be much more of a political force for things outside of direct healthcare.
Then we have the way the medical establishment lost a lot of respect due to how they handled COVID, so there's not as much of a chance of people deciding to support gun control just because doctors say it's necessary..3
It doesn't seem that some of these doctors get it, either.
Janna Gewirtz O’Brien, president-elect of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said she’s hearing “a whole lot of empathy and not a lot of action.”
“I think sometimes politics gets in the way of good sense,” she said.
Gun control isn't good sense. It's an infringement on people's rights and a threat to their personal safety.
Guns are used to prevent violence far more often than they're used in acts of it. They prevent a lot more than shootings, too. They're used by law-abiding citizens every day to stay out of emergency rooms from both gun-wielding bad guys, but also those threatening others with any number of weapons, to say nothing of wild animals and other threats that can be scared off with a firearm.
They don't see the peace of mind a single mother might feel knowing there's a gun handy if she needs it. They don't see or care about any of that, and then O'Brien has the nerve to claim that what she and her ilk are pushing is good sense?
Honestly, I laughed at the concept so much I sprained something.
I'd best not go to the hospital, though, because someone might decide laughter is a threat to public safety.
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