Quote Originally Posted by Fentonite View Post
That statement is just as ignorant as saying "Know there are some good gun owners, but man you have to look". I find far more competent docs in my daily interactions than incompetent ones, and I deal with a lot. Sure, there are morons, but they are, by far, the minority. I'm not a physician. I'm a PA, and I practice emergency medicine. I don't have a doctorate degree, but I do have a Master of Medical Science degree. And I shoot. And I shoot with some of the docs I work with. One of them is in Afghanistan right now, serving our country. When you make such skewed statements that are so out of proportion to the truth, you come off sounding as unreasonable and incredible as the libs who claim that simply owning guns makes you a threat. Stop sounding like a lib.

I believe Tor was just expressing his personal observations. Don't know what Tor does in the medical field and I will respect his view as much as I respect yours. Employees are aligned quite differently in businesses and that alignment brings different views. I bet it took a lot of work to get where you are and I admire that. However the intent of posting this article was to show members of the forum what the media and a group of doctors were promoting and that was guns are epidemic to be dealt with. In my work I deal with people in crisis quite often. The common factor is that these people have mental issues when they make the threats. Many times these mental issues are sorted out and the afflicted overcome, while others need long term care and monitoring.Our society needs to deal with mental illness and crisis better in the medical community, the regular community and in the home. Impeding a American citizens rights is not the way to go. Look closly at these shooters they had mental issues and people close them knew this as well.