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Doctors' orders
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Pierre Lemieux - Monday,28 November 2005
In a just released position statement entitled "Youth and firearms in Canada," the Canadian Paediatric Society opposes the presence of guns "in homes or environments in which children and adolescents live and play," supports "legislative measures to strictly control the acquisition, ownership and storage of firearms," and declares that "[p]hysicians should routinely inquire about the presence of a firearm in the home . . . "
Compassion and altruism--or paternalism--are certainly part of the paediatricians' motivations. But why don't they propose for, say, swimming pools and automobiles, the same criminal repression and surveillance that they favour against guns? Drowning in swimming pools killed 14 youngsters (0-19 years old) in 2002, more than three times the number of youngsters (four) accidentally killed by guns. Car accidents kill twice as many youngsters (158) as the total number killed, intentionally or not, by guns (that is, 67, of which most are suicides).
People trained in the exact sciences ignore subjective preferences, which are what motivate an individual's actions and make life worth living. Our medical elite, who like swimming pools and two-car garages, don't understand that others prefer hunting or the security of a gun for protection against human or animal predators.
The medical apparatchiks also lack an understanding of the logic of social and political institutions. Give to some the power to impose their preferences on others, and tyranny follows. The Nazi medical establishment espoused "the goal of creating a secure and sanitary utopia," as Robert Proctor shows in The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press, 1999), which should be compulsory reading for physicians. Ludwig Edelstein's Ancient Medicine (John Hopkins University Press, 1967) recalls that "[t]o repress the dangers threatening from the leadership of physicians in society, Samuel Butler in his Erewhon made it a crime to be sick," for otherwise "the doctors should be the only depositaries of power in the nation, and have all we hold precious at their mercy."
Our loving apparatchiks demonstrate a total ignorance of the criminological and economic literature (Kleck, Rossi, Kates, Mauser, Lott, among others) showing that guns contribute to self-defence and prevent a certain number of deaths. They try to make us believe that their policy prescriptions are "scientifically" based on counting corpses, but they only count some.
"Registration requirements for handguns have been in place since the late 1970s," claims the CPS statement, while the correct date is 1934. The authors call BB and air guns "nonpowder firearms," which seems to me about as intelligent as "fireless firearms."
The priestly pronouncements of the CPS are based on political ideology, not scientific analysis. Is this surprising? Physicians are enfants chéris of the state, from which they received their education and get virtually all their incomes. Their allegiance is to the state rather than to their customers and to the Hippocratic ideal.
If you can't run in your imagination the film of your child being killed in, say, an ATV accident, you will underestimate the danger. The paediatric apparatchiks are just as unable to imagine how civilian guns can be used in self-defence. A child's or teenager's "preventable death" from a firearm wound is certainly a terrible tragedy, but so is the preventable death of the victim of a bear or a criminal. Or a tyrant: Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii has calculated that, in the 20th century alone, and without taking war operations into account, 129 million (nearly always disarmed) civilians, including women and children, have been mass-murdered by their own states (in the U.S.S.R., China, Cambodia, Germany, etc.). These corpses should be counted, too.
The labcoats need to be educated in criminology, economics, history, and about our traditional liberties.
There are many advantages of raising children with guns around. It conveys to them the sentiment of individual sovereignty, and the idea that they should be ready to fight for their liberty. Public-health social engineering suggests they probably will have to. George Orwell, the author of 1984, wrote, "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
TIZ
http://www.westernstandard.ca/
Pierre Lemieux - Monday,28 November 2005
In a just released position statement entitled "Youth and firearms in Canada," the Canadian Paediatric Society opposes the presence of guns "in homes or environments in which children and adolescents live and play," supports "legislative measures to strictly control the acquisition, ownership and storage of firearms," and declares that "[p]hysicians should routinely inquire about the presence of a firearm in the home . . . "
Compassion and altruism--or paternalism--are certainly part of the paediatricians' motivations. But why don't they propose for, say, swimming pools and automobiles, the same criminal repression and surveillance that they favour against guns? Drowning in swimming pools killed 14 youngsters (0-19 years old) in 2002, more than three times the number of youngsters (four) accidentally killed by guns. Car accidents kill twice as many youngsters (158) as the total number killed, intentionally or not, by guns (that is, 67, of which most are suicides).
People trained in the exact sciences ignore subjective preferences, which are what motivate an individual's actions and make life worth living. Our medical elite, who like swimming pools and two-car garages, don't understand that others prefer hunting or the security of a gun for protection against human or animal predators.
The medical apparatchiks also lack an understanding of the logic of social and political institutions. Give to some the power to impose their preferences on others, and tyranny follows. The Nazi medical establishment espoused "the goal of creating a secure and sanitary utopia," as Robert Proctor shows in The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press, 1999), which should be compulsory reading for physicians. Ludwig Edelstein's Ancient Medicine (John Hopkins University Press, 1967) recalls that "[t]o repress the dangers threatening from the leadership of physicians in society, Samuel Butler in his Erewhon made it a crime to be sick," for otherwise "the doctors should be the only depositaries of power in the nation, and have all we hold precious at their mercy."
Our loving apparatchiks demonstrate a total ignorance of the criminological and economic literature (Kleck, Rossi, Kates, Mauser, Lott, among others) showing that guns contribute to self-defence and prevent a certain number of deaths. They try to make us believe that their policy prescriptions are "scientifically" based on counting corpses, but they only count some.
"Registration requirements for handguns have been in place since the late 1970s," claims the CPS statement, while the correct date is 1934. The authors call BB and air guns "nonpowder firearms," which seems to me about as intelligent as "fireless firearms."
The priestly pronouncements of the CPS are based on political ideology, not scientific analysis. Is this surprising? Physicians are enfants chéris of the state, from which they received their education and get virtually all their incomes. Their allegiance is to the state rather than to their customers and to the Hippocratic ideal.
If you can't run in your imagination the film of your child being killed in, say, an ATV accident, you will underestimate the danger. The paediatric apparatchiks are just as unable to imagine how civilian guns can be used in self-defence. A child's or teenager's "preventable death" from a firearm wound is certainly a terrible tragedy, but so is the preventable death of the victim of a bear or a criminal. Or a tyrant: Professor R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii has calculated that, in the 20th century alone, and without taking war operations into account, 129 million (nearly always disarmed) civilians, including women and children, have been mass-murdered by their own states (in the U.S.S.R., China, Cambodia, Germany, etc.). These corpses should be counted, too.
The labcoats need to be educated in criminology, economics, history, and about our traditional liberties.
There are many advantages of raising children with guns around. It conveys to them the sentiment of individual sovereignty, and the idea that they should be ready to fight for their liberty. Public-health social engineering suggests they probably will have to. George Orwell, the author of 1984, wrote, "That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
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