CDC Czar on the hunt. Covid is not keeping her busy enough.

[SrMachoSolo]

If you step back far enough, you can see that humanity is the disease.

No cure for that. Lol

Hot lead is a modern cure.

-Robert

 

[titsonritz]

Can anything "cover" Mr. Potato Head at this point?

 

[Hemlock]

No such thing as "gun violence." Guns are not violent. They are a tool. Do we have auto violence? Hammer violence? Knife violence?
It's the people that are violent.

 

[arakboss]

No such thing as "gun violence." Guns are not violent. They are a tool. Do we have auto violence? Hammer violence? Knife violence?
It's the people that are violent.

Unfortunately yes to hammer violence:

Wisconsin boy, 12, dies after alleged hammer attack; 8-year-old also injured, report says

A 12-year-old Milwaukee boy was killed and another, 8, was hurt after suffering blunt force trauma injuries during what is believed to have been a hammer attack, according to local reports.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Hemlock]

But does the news media call it "hammer violence?"

 

[arakboss]

But does the news media call it "hammer violence?"

Nope. Attack seems to be the most used word for the rash of these incidents that have occured with hammers recently.

 

[Jonnyuma]

I can see it now, it will follow Covid death reporting.
Here's a scenario:
While using a meat mallet to tenderize that London Broil, you accidentally smash your thumb with the mallet. It's bad, so you go to the ER.
Doc looks at it, you joke, "it's not as bad as Garand Thumb." Doc writes it up as firearm related injury. Health insurance denies coverage.

And another:
Gramps dies in his bed of old age. His entire life he slept with a gun, even when grandma was alive. The paramedics set the gun aside and note it in their report. Cause of death, firearm violence. Suicide is an exclusion in his life insurance policy - insurance company attempts to deny payout.

It's ridiculous, but that's pretty much the methodology used by the "study" that determined that owning a gun makes you twice (or 3 times, whatever) as likely to die prematurely. I don't remember the actual statistic or the name of the study (Brown? Braunschwieger? Something with a B) but they included EVERYONE who died, car accident, work accident, piano fell out a window onto their head, whatever... as long as they had a gun at home and were dead, they counted.

Thoroughly discredited and debunked years ago, the numbers still get cited by antis as proof that they are, in fact, stupid.

 

[arakboss]

It's ridiculous, but that's pretty much the methodology used by the "study" that determined that owning a gun makes you twice (or 3 times, whatever) as likely to die prematurely. I don't remember the actual statistic or the name of the study (Brown? Braunschwieger? Something with a B) but they included EVERYONE who died, car accident, work accident, piano fell out a window onto their head, whatever... as long as they had a gun at home and were dead, they counted.

Thoroughly discredited and debunked years ago, the numbers still get cited by antis as proof that they are, in fact, stupid.

I could believe there is some truth to those numbers. It's reasonable to assume that a firearm owner may be willing to take more risks in life.

 

[Mark W.]

People get disease's Guns do not. So as long as they deal with the disease all should be well.

 

[P7M13]

The disease is liberal Ken's and Karen's telling us we have a crisis and they will save us.

 

[billdeserthills]

Nope. Attack seems to be the most used word for the rash of these incidents that have occured with hammers recently.

I better check around & make sure I have enough hammers--with the possible hammer ban coming, you know they'll all get cleaned out

 

[Knobgoblin]

Hot lead is a modern cure.

-Robert

Take 2 of these, and call me...

Repeat if problem persists.

 

[arakboss]

Just FYI: this is the third thread on this topic.
Here's the other two:

CDC wanted to take away property owner rights, now they want to tackle guns

https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-director-vows-to-take-on-gun-violence-as-public-health-crisis-2021-8 I absolutely hate to link Crap News Network, but the CDC director interview is quite damning on what her true intentions are...

www.northwestfirearms.com

CDC Czar on the hunt. Covid is not keeping her busy enough.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/health/cdc-gun-research-walensky/index.html

www.northwestfirearms.com

Winner winner chicken dinner. My thread was started at 8:02am Friday

 

[Camelfilter]

Winner winner chicken dinner. My thread was started at 8:02am Friday

Just FYI: this is the third thread on this topic.
Here's the other two:

CDC wanted to take away property owner rights, now they want to tackle guns

https://www.businessinsider.com/cdc-director-vows-to-take-on-gun-violence-as-public-health-crisis-2021-8 I absolutely hate to link Crap News Network, but the CDC director interview is quite damning on what her true intentions are...

www.northwestfirearms.com

CDC Czar on the hunt. Covid is not keeping her busy enough.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/health/cdc-gun-research-walensky/index.html

www.northwestfirearms.com

All 3 merged...

 

[Flopsweat]

It's ridiculous, but that's pretty much the methodology used by the "study" that determined that owning a gun makes you twice (or 3 times, whatever) as likely to die prematurely. I don't remember the actual statistic or the name of the study (Brown? Braunschwieger? Something with a B) but they included EVERYONE who died, car accident, work accident, piano fell out a window onto their head, whatever... as long as they had a gun at home and were dead, they counted.

Thoroughly discredited and debunked years ago, the numbers still get cited by antis as proof that they are, in fact, stupid.

That would be the Kellerman Study, done in King County WA. It purported to show those living in a household with a firearm were something like 40 times more likely to be killed with a gun. What it really proved was that Arthur Kellerman had little interest in the truth, and that people who live where you are more likely to be shot at are more likely to have a gun.

They took statistics for people who didn't own guns from nice neighborhoods and statistics for gun owners from bad neighborhoods. Surprise! The gun owners got shot more often. They included only incidents that resulted in death, ignoring successful self defenses where the perpetrator was not killed. Something like 95% of defensive gun uses in the U.S. result in no shots fired.

 

[Diamondback]

That would be the Kellerman Study, done in King County WA. It purported to show those living in a household with a firearm were something like 40 times more likely to be killed with a gun. What it really proved was that Arthur Kellerman had little interest in the truth, and that people who live where you are more likely to be shot at are more likely to have a gun.

They took statistics for people who didn't own guns from nice neighborhoods and statistics for gun owners from bad neighborhoods. Surprise! The gun owners got shot more often. They included only incidents that resulted in death, ignoring successful self defenses where the perpetrator was not killed. Something like 95% of defensive gun uses in the U.S. result in no shots fired.

Worth noting that even Kellerman himself renounced his own study...

 

[Hemlock]