NRA tells doctors to "Stay in your lane" on twitter. Drs respond.

[Ilsa]

Link to tweet

?s=19

Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves. https://www.nraila.org/articles/20181102/surprise-physician-group-rehashes-same-tired-gun-control-policies …

1,732

2:43 PM - Nov 7, 2018

Epic responses from medical professionals, parents, victims. Also:

Link to tweet

?s=19

Maybe if you didn't successfully lobby Washington to prohibit the @CDCgov from receiving funding to investigate the health effects of widespread gun ownership there would be more data on the issue for them to consult?

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9:33 PM - Nov 8, 2018

[treestar]

1. Doctors see the carnage

up close. Guess the NRA doesn't want to think about that.

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. All the NRA sees is the $$ signs. nt

[IrishEyes]

15. The more carnage, the more money they make.

Gun sales go up after after shootings that get a lot of media attention. I was going to say after mass shootings but since that is almost a daily occurrence, not every mass shooting makes headlines.

The NRA is a horrible organization. The Thousand Oaks Bar shooting was the 307th in 2018 and there are still almost two more months to go.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/08/thousand-oaks-california-bar-shooting-307th-mass-shooting/1928574002/

[cstanleytech]

18. Its not more like the NRA does not want the data collected because they already know

that its a problem but they do not care because its all about the $$$ and the power they currently wield in this country and they do not want to weaken themselves.

[azureblue]

25. the better response from doctors

would simply be pictures of gun shot wounds, with the age of the victims..

[ProfessorGAC]

2. Response Is Too Tame

Something like "We save lives of people shot by guns. You should stay in your blood stained lane." would have been more impactful.

[Cha]

5. Agree.. not explicit

enough for the killer gaslighting organization.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Actually, If I Were Doing The Response. . .

. . .i'd go VERY explicit. Something like "Shut the fuck up, idiots!"

[Sentath]

21. Check the actual thread

They got a few versions of that sentiment


Edit to add: I like the one that says: "What “lane” are you in, exactly? The killing-as-many-people-as-you-can-in-the-shortest-amount-of-time lane? Or is it the funding-the-kakistocracy-with-Russian-money lane?

Your organization is disgusting."

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Nice Catch

I was only referencing the doctor response, but the replies you point out are much more like it!

[Demwolv]

3. Who else are they suppose to consult?

Isn't the entire study on what doctors see first hand when they treat patients with bullet wounds? Are they suppose to consult gun nuts and ask them why a body ravaged with bullet wounds falls under the second amendment? Their argument makes no sense

[NutmegYankee]

4. What a bunch of a-holes. Doctors should always comment on health issues nt

[azureblue]

26. so if the gun nuts don't like doctors

then they should not go to them... That would take care of the problem, neatly..

[spanone]

8. the nra has some fucking nerve.

[safeinOhio]

9. How about getting Russia

off our roads and work on their restrictive gun rights instead of ours?

[dalton99a]

14. Bingo

[llmart]

10. I care about what the NRA people say...

about as much as I care about what Trump says.

[tymorial]

11. So let me get this straight

The men and women who are charged with helping to save the lives of gun violence victims should'nt have an opinion?

amusing

[WePurrsevere]

12. NRA, What doctors do saves lives. What you do costs them...

They're in exactly the correct 'lane' to do their job and hopefully someday the only cost will be the one YOU pay by going under.

[raging moderate]

13. "SELF-important DOCTORS?" REALLY?

Dear NRA officials:
When you are lying there, someday, helplessly ill or injured, will you still believe that doctors are Self-important? I think not. We'll see how important these doctors look to you then!

"

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. What the hell would doctors "consult" the NRA for?

Talk about "staying in your lane" LOL

[struggle4progress]

17. Reducing Firearm Injuries and Deaths in the United States: A Position Paper

30 OCTOBER 2018

... firearm violence continues to be a public health crisis that requires the nation's immediate attention ...

Physicians are encouraged to discuss with their patients the risks that may be associated with having a firearm in the home and recommend ways to mitigate such risks, including best practices to reduce injuries and deaths ...

Sales of firearms should be subject to satisfactory completion of a criminal background check and proof of satisfactory completion of an appropriate educational program on firearms safety. The American College of Physicians supports a universal background check system to keep guns out of the hands of felons, persons with mental illnesses that put them at a greater risk of inflicting harm to themselves or others, persons with substance use disorders, domestic violence offenders, and others who already are prohibited from owning guns ...

Individuals subject to domestic violence restraining orders, including temporary orders, should be prohibited from purchasing and possessing firearms and be required to surrender their firearms for the duration of the order ...

http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2709820/reducing-firearm-injuries-deaths-united-states-position-paper-from-american

[DFW]

19. Meanwhile, on Fox "News:"

NRA doctors have conclusively proved that gun shot wounds are actually beneficial to the health of 90% of the population.


A medical oddity that has shown up in their study--all officials of the NRA and all Republican members of Congress are in the 10% for whom gun shot wounds are detrimental to their health, and the NRA has therefore recommended NOT to shoot at them.

[dlk]

20. This Tweet Show How Little Respect the NRA has for the Safety and Lives of Americans

Could they be any more ghoulish?

[leftyladyfrommo]

22. What do doctors know? They just have to try and patch

up the victims.

[Initech]

24. Someone should tell the NRA to go fuck themselves.

[muntrv]

27. Maybe the ammosexuals should just boycott doctors and do faith healing for themselves.

[TDale313]

28. This is a public health issue

So yeah, kinda is their lane. Fuck the NRA.

[iscooterliberally]

29. Vice News has some more of the doctors' replies.

Here's a link to their article on the story:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/nepv9k/how-dare-you-surgeons-respond-to-nras-complaint-about-self-important-doctors

[elmac]

30. hmmm