A Note To The American Association Of Nurse Practitioners On Guns
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 8 months ago
AANP:
Far too frequently, NPs are treating victims of mass shootings in hospital settings or helping them manage their recovery long after the media coverage subsides. AANP continues to support policymakers putting politics aside and focusing on common-sense reforms that reduce access to automatic weapons and high capacity magazines, increasing the age to purchase certain firearms and strengthening the federal background check system, while maintaining the individual’s right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment.
In addition, AANP supports state and federal investment for additional research to look at this major crisis, including a focus on the root causes of gun violence and expanding access to mental health treatment to communities in the aftermath of these tragedies.
There is no “access to automatic weapons” unless you have $25,000 or more to buy a pre-ban (1968 GCA) machine gun. What you really meant to say is that you support restricting access to semi-automatic weapons. They tried that in New Zealand. Out of an estimated several million semi-automatic firearms, to date the turn-in rate stands at around a thousand, give or take. This is massive noncompliance in a country that doesn’t have a second amendment.
There are tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of semi-automatic firearms in America. Do you really believe Americans will comply with orders to turn in semi-automatic firearms? Really?
But if you demand compliance via door-to-door confiscations, what you’re really asking for is civil war. In that case you’ll be treating a lot more people than you do now.
Is that what you want? I would suggest you stop watching so much television – it’s bad for your mental health – and get out a little more into the highways and byways of America and learn the people.
On August 7, 2019 at 5:10 pm, Fred said:
“…including a focus on the root causes of gun violence…”
Here’s your root cause. Pay careful attention, this is a test, no, there won’t be a test later, later will be too late, this IS the test!
Our rights are not inherent by our nature. Sin is inherent by our nature. Our rights come as a blessing by accepting and executing our duties unto Holy God who then holds the penalty for our sin in abeyance. When those duties are neglected things start to turn. When those duties are rejected, you lose your rights, sin multiplies, and tyrants prevail. And then it gets so bad that nobody can even remember this [You are here]. Read Judges, or an American newspaper, both reveal this same truth. That’s why America is going downhill so fast, nobody [that’s you] even knows the truth anymore.
Here are some of the symptoms quoted below. You being nurses might appreciate this analogy of finding symptoms. I was taught by the greatest Profit that ever lives to find you here, at the intersection of who you are now and what you could become in Him.
These are some of the symptoms explained by some guy named malcolm:
“I am 61 years old. I grew up in a rural area of west-central New Jersey. When I was a boy, all the households around me had a gun or two. We boys used to stack up hay-bales and put targets on them (a charcoal briquette was a favorite choice) to shoot at with a .22. Schools and scout-troops often had rifle ranges; I myself got a marksmanship Merit Badge while at summer camp with the Boy Scouts. I don’t recall being aware of any gun laws at all; you could buy ammo at the general store. (Gun safety was a big deal, though, and kids were taught to handle firearms carefully and respectfully.)
This was the state of normal (non-urban, middle-class, predominantly white) American culture half a century ago. Guns were an unexceptional part of that bygone world, and were easily accessible to all of us (you could order pretty much any gun you liked through the mail, by sending cash in an envelope!). Somehow, though, we hardly ever murdered each other, and mass shootings were very, very rare.
Something has changed, obviously. And it isn’t access to guns.
To those on the Left, shrieking for the government to make the pain stop by exerting more control — you celebrities, politicians, editors, and yes, you goodthinkful liberals that I know personally here in New York, many of whom I have called friends — I’ll say this:
While you were, over the last half-century, systematically destroying, displacing, denouncing, and dismantling the historic American nation and its civil society — all moral norms, every basis of public commonality, all respect for our history and heritage, public expression of religion, the nuclear family, sexual restraint, and every natural structure and category and hierarchy that held civilization together and gave young people a framework within which to learn dignity and duty and gratitude and belonging and meaning and self-control — while you were doing all that, what did you think was going to happen? And now you want to “fix” the moral and social wreckage you’ve created by disarming us against your future predations upon our rights, our culture, and upon the society we still hope, against hope, to restore and preserve?
Go to hell. This sickness is your fault, not ours. You will not degrade us any longer. If you want our arms, come and take them.”
Now, this malcolm guy has no power to send you to hell, he’s not even central to my point, it’s simply a courtesy to mention his name since he’s quoted above. But, that’s where you are headed already, hell. You are a sinner and there is only ONE WAY to fix the mess that we as a people find ourselves in. This Profit that I mentioned, now He IS central to all that matters, right here, with you, right now. His name is Jesus, He is the Christ of God. Treating the symptoms is not a cure for the root cause. The root cause is Sin. The cure is Jesus.
On August 9, 2019 at 1:18 am, JFP said:
Dear NP’s, how many people die each day in America to medical malpractice?