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Essay:Medical Case Against Gun Control (view source)
Revision as of 01:42, January 25, 2008
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Are they right? This essay, which welcomes suggestions by others, looks at the logic and evidence of the impact of [[gun control]] on public health.
Are they right? This essay, which welcomes suggestions by others, looks at the logic and evidence of the impact of [[gun control]] on public health.
[[Hitler]] was deterred from invading [[Switzerland]] during [[World War II]] in part for the same reason.
[[Hitler]] was deterred from invading [[Switzerland]] during [[World War II]] in part for the same reason.
== Medical Arguments Against Gun Control ==
== Medical Arguments Against Gun Control ==
The ''amici curiae'' brief of the American Publish Health Association argues that:<ref>http://www.gurapossessky.com/news/parker/documents/07-290acAmericanPublicHealthAssociation.pdf (at p. 8)</ref>
:While others address the legal standard that should govern this Court’s scrutiny of the statutes at issue, amici submit the following empirical information regarding the effect of firearms, and in particular handguns, on the public's health. See, e.g., ''Brown v. Bd. of Educ.'', 347 U.S. 483, 494 & n.11 (1952) (empirical evidence informs constitutional analysis).
== References ==
== References ==
* http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/wheeler1.html (when pediatricians become politicians)
* http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/wheeler1.html (when pediatricians become politicians)
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