Thursday, June 01, 2006
What an idiot
Matthew Miller is a doctor who seems to think medical training makes him an expert on gun ownership. Observe:
Miller, a physician with training in internal medicine, medical oncology and medical ethics, has been the Associate Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center since the year 2000.
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Your father did a great job keeping his firearms hidden from you -- but as the study that Frances Baxley and I conducted shows, most children, even those as young as five years old, know where their parents household guns are stored...
In one study, boys aged 9-15 were strongly warned not to touch guns. However, when left alone with a gun, about a quarter touched and played with it. Almost all then denied doing so when they were asked. None of the boys touched any other forbidden item after being warned against doing so. "The results of the current study indicate that guns hold a unique allure and cast further doubt on the ability of gun admonitions to keep children safe around guns"
Here's a brain-buster for ya, doc. My brother and I grew up playing on the rug in front of my grandfather's gun cabinet, with all sorts of firepower within easy reach behind a simple glass door. Yet despite all your blather, we never even thought about touching them. Guess why. Go ahead, guess.
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Give up? One word: Discipline. We knew that touching those things without permission would earn us the worst thrashing in the history of our young lives. And that was just from Gramps. When Mom and Dad found out it would only get worse.
The doc goes on to trot out the usual crapola and junk science that's been discredited time and time again. Moronic stuff, like how it's supposedly impossible to defend yourself with a gun unless you kill the bad guy (bad guys apparently never break off attacks just because a gun is pointed at them). The anti-gun movement keeps getting new mouthpieces, but they keep telling the same lies.
Next.
Miller, a physician with training in internal medicine, medical oncology and medical ethics, has been the Associate Director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center since the year 2000.
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Your father did a great job keeping his firearms hidden from you -- but as the study that Frances Baxley and I conducted shows, most children, even those as young as five years old, know where their parents household guns are stored...
In one study, boys aged 9-15 were strongly warned not to touch guns. However, when left alone with a gun, about a quarter touched and played with it. Almost all then denied doing so when they were asked. None of the boys touched any other forbidden item after being warned against doing so. "The results of the current study indicate that guns hold a unique allure and cast further doubt on the ability of gun admonitions to keep children safe around guns"
Here's a brain-buster for ya, doc. My brother and I grew up playing on the rug in front of my grandfather's gun cabinet, with all sorts of firepower within easy reach behind a simple glass door. Yet despite all your blather, we never even thought about touching them. Guess why. Go ahead, guess.
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Give up? One word: Discipline. We knew that touching those things without permission would earn us the worst thrashing in the history of our young lives. And that was just from Gramps. When Mom and Dad found out it would only get worse.
The doc goes on to trot out the usual crapola and junk science that's been discredited time and time again. Moronic stuff, like how it's supposedly impossible to defend yourself with a gun unless you kill the bad guy (bad guys apparently never break off attacks just because a gun is pointed at them). The anti-gun movement keeps getting new mouthpieces, but they keep telling the same lies.
Next.
Posted by Tom @ 4:16 AM 
