I gotcher freedom and liberty rite-cheeyah
by digby
So yeah, the 2nd literally trumps the 1st now:
Several years ago, the American Medical Association advised doctors to ask their patients about firearms and “educate patients to the dangers of firearms to children” in the name of public health. But doctors in Florida may be suppressed from giving this medical advice, now that a federal appeals court upheld a Florida law that became known as the “physician gag rule” because it punishes doctors for talking about guns.
The ruling could have major implications as policymakers examine gun violence as a public health issue. The National Rifle Association-backed law it upheld imposes severe limits on when doctors can ask their patients about guns or keep records in their patients’ charts about firearm safety. Doctors who are found to have violated the provision risk sanctions or loss of their license.
Well, these gun proliferation advocates are right. There is simply no good reason that doctors should even mention the potential of this happening as a public health problem:
A 5-year-old girl is dead after police say another 5-year-old accidentally shot her at an eastern Idaho home.
Lt. Bill Guiberson of the Chubbuck Police Department says emergency workers responded to a Chubbuck home at about 3 p.m. Wednesday and took the victim to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello. The hospital confirmed later in the evening the girl had died.
In a statement Thursday, police said adults were in the home at the time of the shooting but were in a different room.
It’s unclear whether the victim lived at the residence; the statement said only that she was there “visiting with friends” when the shooting happened. Police didn’t return a call Thursday from The Associated Press.
Investigators have not released the type of gun involved or said how the children got access to it.
I can’t even make a snide remark about that, it’s so awful.
So everyone has to have guns all the time and everywhere. And it’s now not even allowed for anyone to talk to gun owners about safety around children. Even asking gun owners not to leave their fucking loaded deadly weapons around 5 years olds is an infringement of the 2nd Amendment now.
Tragedy strikes a family after a pregnant woman is shot in the head. 25-year-old Katherine Hoover died of her injuries early Monday morning. Her baby boy couldn’t be saved.
The shooting happened on Suncrest Drive in Brooksville.
Relatives of the shooter told 10 News this was all a terrible accident.
“We feel terrible about the whole thing,” said Don DeHayes.
Well that’s good.
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