Published here on this blog for your interest: The NRA goes after "self-important doctors"
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the NRA tweeted last week, the same week a gunman opened fire inside a bar in Thousands Oaks, California, killing 12 people.
The NRA was criticizing a new paper by the American College of Physicians that details suggestions for addressing gun violence, but it set off a firestorm of responses from doctors who regularly treat shooting victims. . .
"Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane," Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist, responded on Twitter.
"It’s my fucking highway."
Other medical professionals also challenged the NRA, sharing gruesome photos and anecdotes about what it's like to be on the front line of gun violence . . .
READ MORE > https://www.buzzfeednews.com
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Mass casualties, like the ones recently in Thousand Oaks and Pittsburgh, are unquestionably horrific events, but the truth is that each major city in the US sees a mass casualty of gunshot violence every week, . . The public should understand that the majority of us in the medical community are not anti-gun; we are anti-meaningless, preventable deaths."
-- Adam Shiroff, the director of the Penn Center for Chest Trauma in Philadelphia, told BuzzFeed News he has treated shooting victims for more than 10 years.
"I've never gotten used to telling a mother their child is lost to gun violence. I hope I never do."
Warning: This article contains graphic images.
"Medical professionals are sharing gruesome photos of what it's like to treat shooting victims in response to a tweet by the National Rifle Association that admonished doctors who were advocating for tighter gun restrictions to "stay in their lane."
"Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the NRA tweeted last week, the same week a gunman opened fire inside a bar in Thousands Oaks, California, killing 12 people.
The NRA was criticizing a new paper by the American College of Physicians that details suggestions for addressing gun violence, but it set off a firestorm of responses from doctors who regularly treat shooting victims. . .
"Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane," Judy Melinek, a forensic pathologist, responded on Twitter.
"It’s my fucking highway."
Other medical professionals also challenged the NRA, sharing gruesome photos and anecdotes about what it's like to be on the front line of gun violence . . .
READ MORE > https://www.buzzfeednews.com
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Mass casualties, like the ones recently in Thousand Oaks and Pittsburgh, are unquestionably horrific events, but the truth is that each major city in the US sees a mass casualty of gunshot violence every week, . . The public should understand that the majority of us in the medical community are not anti-gun; we are anti-meaningless, preventable deaths."
-- Adam Shiroff, the director of the Penn Center for Chest Trauma in Philadelphia, told BuzzFeed News he has treated shooting victims for more than 10 years.
