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Guns: lifesaver, or public health menace?(INSIDER REPORT)
A September 5 article in the Washington Times entitled "How Many Do Guns Defend?" said: "Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates 2.5 million Americans use guns for defense each year. He further found 1 in 6 of those who used guns defensively believed someone would have died if they had not resorted to their firearms.... Mr. Kleck points out that if only a tenth of the people were right about saving a life, the number saved annually by guns would still be at least 40,000." This stands in comparison with 12,548 people dying in 2003 "through nonsuicide gun violence, including homicides, accidents and cases of undetermined intent."
Yet, several physicians groups repeatedly refer to guns as a public health menace and link guns as a causative factor in violence. They back up their assertions with "facts" from gun control groups--"facts" that misrepresent the truth or are outright lies. For instance, they often refer to a statistic promoted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence that claims that "the risk of homicide is three times greater in households with guns." Of course, they don't mention that the ...
- Indoors, a health menace lurks.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Heavens, Alan J. May 19, 1997 700+ words
If you are sneezing, coughing, wheezing or have a headache that just won't go away, your house may be making you sick. Cleaning the place from top to bottom won't make the problem go away. In fact, some of the household products you use to get the bathtub to sparkle or the kitchen floor to shine
- 'Some Dude': public health menace.(Practice Trends)(Reprint)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Family Practice News July 15, 2007 700+ words
Readers who visit www.gruntdoc.com get a glimpse into the life of emergency medicine physician, Dr. Roberts, who vented in this entry about the menacing "Some Dude." November 15, 2004--1:15 a.m. I work in an emergency department and have noticed that there is one common denominator in the majority
- Discarded tires a potential health menace.
- Newspaper article from: Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX) April 15, 2006 700+ words
Byline: Melissa Mcever Apr. 15--956-430-6252 Scattered along back roads, piled high near fences, tossed into alleyways -- the Texas-Mexico border is overrun with discarded tires. Cities throughout the Valley, as well as across the border, are struggling to keep illegal tire dumping under control.
- Public health pot shots: how the CDC succumbed to the gun "epidemic." (US...
- Magazine article from: Reason Kates, Don B. Schaffer, Henry E. Waters, William C., IV April 1, 1997 700+ words
...was driven by an anti-gun prejudice, had previously...to pull the plug on the gun research specifically...Rosenberg for treating guns as a "public health menace," suggesting that he...to advocate or promote gun control," and in July...
- House will vote to end federal firearm research.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Montgomery, Lori July 10, 1996 700+ words
...addressed the risks of gun ownership, finding that a gun in the home nearly triples...convince Americans that guns are, first and foremost, a public health menace.'' Last summer, the...So, this spring, the gun lobby asked the House...
- Assault weapon ban appears to gain
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Ana Puga, Globe Staff May 5, 1994 700+ words
...t any louder than the guns that are on the so...Any one of these guns could be used for target...assault weapons as a public health menace. Elders cited statistics...died were killed with guns. "We in the health...took a lot of grief from gun owners for it...
- Occupational hazard; OSHA nominee David Michaels merits opposition.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times (Washington, DC) September 7, 2009 700+ words
...being polluted by hired guns who may look and sound impressive...Michaels also is an anti-gun zealot who has described gun violence as an issue of...you start viewing private gun ownership as a public health menace, it begins to seem logical...
- Killer Dogs
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Colman McCarthy July 8, 1995 700+ words
...problem: irresponsible owners. Ignoring the public health menace of dogs means that those who profit the most...companions," he says. "It's like owning a gun. And as with a gun in the home, many, many more family members or...
Source: HighBeam Research, Guns: lifesaver, or public health menace?(INSIDER REPORT)