The Courier Journal published an opinion piece in which they said this:
Dr. Paul — himself a physician — is trying to block Dr. Murthy’s confirmation as the nation’s top doctor because he has dared to suggest that “guns are a health care issue” and because he formed “Doctors for America,” which supports the Affordable Care Act.
But perhaps Dr. Paul, who is traveling a lot as a potential presidential candidate, has been too busy to follow the very real public health menace of firearms.
Say what?
If a person owns a gun are they exposed to infection, a virus, dangerous levels of toxins? How is a firearm a "public health menace?"
The answer is that they are not. People who are hurt by the "USE" of firearms are hurt by the actions of people "USING" firearms. Some of the people who are hurt by others through the use of firearms are the victims of criminal acts, the same as those hurt by knives, ball bats, pillows, and other items converted by a human into a tool of violence.
Other people who are hurt by firearms are hurt by negligent or reckless conduct of humans the same as those hurt by vehicles, fire, unattended buckets of water around babies, alcohol and other items misused in a way that causes injury.
No, Rand is correct to oppose this man precisely because he is likely a plant by the gun grabbing Obama administration who will require some sort of reporting in your medical records of all the guns you own, who will likely place "medical" restrictions on who can and can't own a firearm as a "public health" issue and who will serve Obama's ends of finding ways around the Second Amendment the same way he found his way around the "individual mandate" of Obamacare which forces people to buy a product in direct contravention of their individual liberty right to spend their money as they see fit.
The Courier taking this stance reveals that they are either as dumb as a box of hair, or complicit in the Obama plot to register firearms as a step toward confiscation. (see Connecticut) In either case they have clearlly established that their publication isn't worthy of respect.
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