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As the USA experienced the 307th mass shooting in 311 days on November 7th, 2018, in Thousand Oaks the gun control law debate returned to the headlines. This time, the National Rifle Association (NRA) played a major role in them, too. And it has a lot to do with a tweet the organization released just hours before the tragedy in California.
“Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” the NRA wrote. “Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.”
Immediately, outraged doctors from all over the country began responding, and some of them even included chilling real stories from their emergency rooms.
Dr Morris was one of the many health professionals who used Twitter to hit back at the NRA, joining others under the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane. “People need to see the reality of what we deal with. Too often, we get stuck on the same old philosophical arguments about gun violence,” Dr Morris told the BBC. He was deliberately vague about the details surrounding the photo he tweeted “because it is representative of countless times that this has happened to every other person who works in trauma and me.”
“We are anti-violence. Violence is the real problem; guns are simply a vector. What we hope for is the opportunity to study the problem and apply sound scientific methodology to making things better.”
Eventually, Ann Coulter tried to back up the NRA but people think her attempt fell on its face. Scroll down to check out a summary of this heated Twitter debate on gun licensing and laws and tell us your thoughts in the comments.
Recently, the NRA put out a tweet in an attempt to silence the doctors speaking out against gun violence
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But they refused to keep quiet
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Writer and political commentator Ann Coulter expressed her personal opinion as well
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But it just fueled the outrage
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And more health professionals joined the discussion
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What do you think?
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Aunt Messy 6 years ago
The most common disease afflicting Republicans these days is cranial/rectal inversion.
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Elizabeth Molloy 6 years ago
The American obsession with firearms is totally unfathomable to the rest of the world.
troufaki13 6 years ago
Pro-gun, anti-vaxxers... Are they're trying to eliminate the human race?
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
@AlphaPuck That's the point- I will never have to pull a gun on anyone cos they are illegal here so they should be!!
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Rocky Joe 6 years ago
IMHO, like how USA has been "teaching" about democracy to tje third world country, I do believe USA can also learn from no-gun policy country.
Bored Panda 6 years ago
Americans are fearful of their countrymen, of immigrants, of children, of churchgoers, of music lovers, of Jews, of witches, and ogres and they need automatic weapons to make sure they can kill as many as possible in the shortest amount of time. The NRA, bless them, makes sure of this by funneling Russian funds to our elected officials. It's a unique American sickness.
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Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
This discussion will still be going on in 25 years. Gunlovers won't have anything to do with gun control and they are supported by the NRA that has bought a lot of politicians. No matter how many mass shootings there will be, the 2nd amandment is more important to them than all the lives that are destroyed. With the Trumpanzee as president it's safe to say that there will be no changes for the next couple of years.
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
And that's why they will eventually lose big. They refuse to be a part of the solution so the solution will happen without them and they won't like it at all. They could have worked with the rest of us to find a solution we could all live with but they refuse to give an inch and want the laws we currently have struck down. At some point the tide will turn and they will be washed away. And they have no one to blame but themselves (although like all "personal responsibility" right wingers they'll blame everyone else).
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rola 6 years ago
It's very sad when pro-gun people dismiss all the mass shootings and any gun control because of their unreasonable need to protect the US from a hypothetical invasion. People -CHILDREN- are being murdered here en masse and all they care about is having a personal arsenal. If they have acquired their guns legally, then no one is going to take their guns because they did it legally. If they think their guns are going to get taken away because of stricter gun control laws, then they must know something is wrong with themselves that they would not get through any stricter regulations.
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Exactly. They say they need their guns to prevent a fascist take-over the USA. Weird because for eight solid years of the Obama Presidency they kept telling us that Obama was a fascist dictator. Yet they never took up arms to stop him. I suspect there are two reasons for that; 1) they're cowards at heart and know they could never go up against the USA. 2) They know they're full of s**t and that Obama was nowhere close to being a dictator.
Load More Replies... Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Gun nuts keep telling us how "responsible" they are. They act like every gun in the hands of a criminal just materialized out of thin air. What they never acknowledge is that EVERY gun that was lawfully manufactured in the first place was always in the hands of "responsible, law abiding" citizens until somehow it got into the hands of a criminal. So somehow these people who keep telling us how super-responsible they are lost control of their guns. They either didn't secure them well enough to prevent them from being stolen or they gave or sold them to a criminal. I understand that some places don't require a person to do a background check on someone before selling them a gun but the law is irrelevant. If you don't know for certain that a person is legally allowed to own a gun then the most irresponsible thing you can do is sell that person a gun regardless of the law. If it weren't for gun nuts, criminals wouldn't have guns in the first place. That's who they get them from.
Andres Tejeda 6 years ago
Ann Coulter and NRA telling doctors to stay in their lane on the gun control debate. Really the NRA is not an expert on anything, its just an organization that made up of ammosexuals and recliner Rambo's trying to protect the gun rights of white angry men. Ann coulter (Transgender Skeletor, no offense to transgeder people.) is just a self aggrandizing, right-wing talking head with opinions so vile and hateful that it would make the KKK blush. So please some one do the right thing and splash some what on that women. Maybe she will melt away.
Amanda Panda 6 years ago
I'm sorry ma'am... but you have idiocy, and I'm afraid it's terminal.
sunnyrei82 6 years ago
I don't get why so many americans are SO obsessed with their f*ing guns!!! Ugh! (Besides those who get rich by them, of course)
To Blave 6 years ago
For men, erectile dysfunction, I swear to God. Those whose guns don't work because of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes 2, resort to playing with other guns. For women, it's their husband's erectile dysfunction that manifests when they see the pig they married. Yes, Alpha Duck, I'm talking about you.
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Dian Ella Lillie 6 years ago
I throughly endorse what so many of these front-line medicos say. I really wish that Bored Panda would provide direct links to their tweets so that we could support them by retweeting the original tweets - trying to find each individually gets a bit laborious after a while, especially when the pitiful Australian excuse for a broadband burps...
Marija Bern 6 years ago
Thanks for the insight! We put links under every tweet now :)
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Wanda Queen 6 years ago
This is such a typical response from the far right. You don't need to know a damn thing about guns to understand gun violence. It's all just deflection. I don't have to be a dungbeetle to know that s**t stinks.
s¡rawrah Mornin 6 years ago
I get kinda sad just being on Facebook during the fall and seeking all the deer bears and wolves shot every year just for entertainment....i can't even comprehend this love of guns
diane a 6 years ago (edited)
I dont see the fun or point of killing wild animals for sport - or as a "hobby". Unless it is to eat, legitimately control numbers, or for specific animals posing a risk to humans or livestock - or to humanely kill an injured or sick one. I can't think of another good reasons these days. It is the "hey - we got guns lets go find something to shoot"
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Roberta Soolook 6 years ago
How could anyone, except perhaps an incredibly stupid person, not see that results of gun violence are totally in doctors' lanes.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
The biggest problem here isn't weapons, it's the American lifestyle and culture. It glorifies violence in music, film, everyday life. The countries in Europe and beyond without gun "control" as it were still have less gun violence because they don't propagate a culture based on glorifying violence. That's not to say that limiting gun use won't work either. In comparable countries that do, while there are attacks using knives and so on, the devastation and loss of life is measured as less significant because the attacker/s could not just pull out a semi and fire at random.
danielw 6 years ago
As a security guard, I'm more afraid of a screwdriver than a knife or gun. Like knives, screw drivers don't need ammo, make very little noise when used as a weapon, and are very tough to break. they never jam and even a total moron can figure out where the pointy end goes, and rather easy to conceal until it's too late. Unlike knives, they're not typically considered a weapon, so most people are like 'oh. he's going to fix something.' (well, yeah, the lock that's not opening, too.) The problem with most gun control bills right now is that they won't actually do anything to limit guns getting into the hands of criminals or people who mean to do harm. I carry for work, sometimes. (site dependent). with my relatively modest training, I can swap a mag out in half a second. So lets go to revolvers only, you say? yeah. moon clips. Oh, so lets go to single shot-only weapons. yeah... you should've seen my grampa with his .38 special service pistol... (fresco lines cop... the stories he told..)
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miten sasmita 6 years ago
I wonder just how much the gun manufacturers pay the republican politicians that they lose all eyes, ears and heart for the crisis they refuse to acknowledge. the rest of the world just don't understand what's so hard about gun control
Mark Fuller 6 years ago
Put simply... I don't get it America. Constitutional rights blah, blah, blah?? Maybe the constitution needs an amendment of another kind. Guns = murder. I'm English. I can own a gun, should I wish. I can participate in hunting and using gun ranges if I wanted to. But somehow we've achieved that without having daily incidents of mass murder. Doesn't feel like rocket science. And if people can't listen to these doctors or the families of patients, it'll never, EVER get better. Where exactly do your priorities lie?? With preservation of human life or violent materialism?
Granstef Ghostlapin 6 years ago
Someone should have told her first that gun violence is further out of the NRA lane : the only goal of the NRA is just to collect and give dirty money to rotten politicians just to repeat their official lies ? ! !
Michael Williams 6 years ago
Yes, only in America can Shock Jocks make millions of dollars flapping the jaw with self-centered s**t throwing. Where's the dummy about knives wiping out dozens of lives?
movie maven 6 years ago
made me ball uncontrollably. maybe more tragic to me also that it's been reduced down to social media baiting as of some sort of news bite, as though it's from Orwell's 1984. Coulter's logic never seems anything more than some pizzazzed-up unending circular logic that she presumes to be witty; yet it's nothing more than the usual ouroboros. the damage done is precisely the domain of those whose lives are spent dedicated to fight to save lives affected by such gun trauma. all life intersects & so do all lanes!
J. Kasilo 6 years ago
Yeah, she "presumes to be witty..." all the way to the bank with her logic...
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Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
Perhaps, if Anne Coulter asks the Wizard real nice he'll give her a heart.
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
My thought, enough already, We all need to do something about the guns, too many die, especially innocent people !!!
Brianne Boleyn 6 years ago
Pretty sure, even if they are not an expert on gummy bears, they are an expert on what gummy bears/ sugary treats do to teeth. Just like doctors know what bullets going through a body will do to someone's health...
Brent Kaufman 6 years ago
So Anne Coulter was "put in her place" by a doctor's response that reduced the entire discussion to ad hominem attacks. I'm not saying that the NRA's or AC's comments were backed up with stats, but it wasn't ad hominem, which takes any discussion to the bottom of any barrel. But by all means, let's all cheer for those who can't back up their opinions with mature thoughts about the issue and have to start calling others insulting names.
Chris Oakley 4 years ago
It was Coulter who started the name-calling in the first place.
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NgatiDreadz 6 years ago
Nothing will change the minds of Americans and they gun laws if you can't change em when a bunch of elementary/high school kids get shot up then you're never gonna change em
Bob Hrzenak 6 years ago
I agree that gun violence is horrible. However, there are millions of honest decent citizens who own guns and are not mass murderers, or murderers at all. Ms. Coulter would have been wiser to point out that the carnage created by bullets was initiated by humans not the guns.
Mallee Man 6 years ago
I may not be a Gynaecologist, but I sure know a C**t when I see one Ms Coulter
Jason Yengst 6 years ago
I'm just trying to figure why they think there has been 307 mass shootings this year.
Janet Summers 6 years ago
Okay. Think of this. The criminals have a lot of guns, and can get them easily on the black market. So law-abiding citizens agree to a gun ban and hand in all their guns. They will then be easy prey for the criminals, because the criminals will not give up that advantage. Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, and one other city have the harshest gun control laws in the country, making it almost impossible to own a gun there. The gangs have guns, though, and they don't care who they kill. The police don't do anything because gangmembers are now made into victims in the news media. California has the strictest gun control laws of any state, so a lot of the shootings happen there, though Florida is catching up fast, and Florida is a purple state. The common theme among all these places that have lots of shootings is a strong presence of gun control, which tends to make me think it doesn't work. Also, London has passed NYC for homocides in a year. So shut your yaps, Brits.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
I'd like to address Mindy Keys since she was downvoted to hell so they remove the ability to reply. Mindy, I'm also a woman living alone in a big city and I completely, wholeheartedly, sincerely understand why you keep a gun. I'm not pro-gun or pro-violence but the reality is that in this world the situation we're in makes us vulnerable to being attacked. The very thought of having your personal space invaded and intruded upon, the place you go to relax and cook and rest, is a sickening thought. Women NEED something to protect themselves. We simply can't ignore the reality of that. There are countless women attacked/raped/murdered every week simply for existing, whether shes in her home or walking in the street (and yes, sometimes by other women). The problem is that if everyone were to have the same access to a weapon like that, it would make attackers all the more powerful. There's no real solution to this other than to perhaps shift the obsession with glorifying violence.
John Sadler 6 years ago
The real problem with the world... we talk about kids bullying but here are professional adults doing the same thing. Maybe we'd have less shootings if this type of bickering and name calling never happened in the first place.
Leah Harris 5 years ago
Amendment 2: The right to bare arms shall not be infringed. Whether I want it for hunting, skeet, or self defense. If you become an expert on guns because you remove bullets, then I am an expert on self defense for having been in a threatening situation. I don't care if youre a doctor or a burger flipper, you're "logic" makes no sense. I believe in classes to learn how to use your weapon properly, and to learn the laws. Thats the end of it. Making guns illegal or less accessible will take them out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Cocaine is illegal, but its still here. Meth is illegal, but its still here. Murder is illegal, but it still happens. Drinking under the age of 21 is illegal, but it still happens. Being drunk and driving is illegal, but it still happens. The vast majority of shootings are done by means of illegally obtained guns. I don't care what you pull of out someones a*s, you are not an expert.
Lewis Jones 6 years ago
' the 307th mass shooting in 311 days ' ABSOLUTE B******T, one of counted was a cop accidental discharge at night alone, no damage to anything and you fcks see MASS SHOOTING! How do you get up in the morning being so terrified of so much nonsense?
Not A Panda 6 years ago
Except she wasn't shut down. She's still talking. I do wish these articles' titles would stop being so stupid, it's making me want to visit less often. I come here for the fun stuff, if I want clickbait titles I'll visit viral.com or summat.
divydumdrop hello 6 years ago
it is bad how political and hateful we are on BOTH sides. Coulter and the NRA are rude and hateful over political issues and others are rude and hateful to them about political issues. Burns on twitter and anti republican comments are not going to solve this one!
Stephen Fritz 6 years ago
the only problem I had with any of this was the phrase "Fully semi automatic" I guess you could have a semi semi automatic, no that doesn't make sense either....
Algernon Blue 6 years ago
Scientists say there will be no comet to hit the earth in next 100 years. For some nihilistic reason I'm sad
Dr. Cheri Hayes 6 years ago
Congratulations, BP...you've done it again. Instead of putting up inspiring, funny, or unique stories, you continue to put up stories that just incite negative feelings and arguments in the comments.
Randa Ratliff 6 years ago
Call 911 , I witnessed a murder today. Dr. London killed it! And Ann Coulter needs to shut the f**k up!
Kim Lorton 6 years ago
When you see the impact a bullet wound has on someone, and where. And IF, it can even be removed, you would never utter those words, stay in. Your own lane, Annie get your gun coulter. I wouldn’t want you to have an opinion on anything like gun violence.
Mals Winter 6 years ago
Hi guys...want to sort this all out later..I don't think I will have the time to read all of your comments 😋 lol jk
Todd Chesser 6 years ago
Ann Coulter is a f*****g moron and I wonder, every time she raises her puny head to spew b******t, why anyone ever pays attention to her. Ever.
Ed Lesperance 6 years ago
Divide and conquer. As long as they keep arguing, nothing will be done.
Isabel Care 6 years ago
Send Ann Coulter a 5 pound bag of sugar free gummy bears. Sweet revenge.
Barry Cole 6 years ago
Once again you fail to grasp the concept that we have a culture and people problem, guns are only the tool of choice. Fortunately I have survived for quite a few decades. When I was in high school guns were present in the back windows of pickup trucks and we even had gun safety classes at school and in boy scouts in junior high. Nobody was shot or killed in our schools. What has changed in the last 30, 40 or 50 years to bring about the bloodbath we have today? Its really rather simple to see if one opens their eyes, our society does not value life as we once did. People are being desensitized to the violence that is now present in many aspects of our lives. Human life is devalued in violent video games, television shows and movies. Life is devalued in the pornography that is ever present on the internet. With the millions of lives lost through abortion and the availability of physician assisted suicides the value of human life is abandoned. You reap what you sow.
A Dyke From The Dreamworld 6 years ago
The only gun violence I will ever condone is shooting Ann Coulter.
Dan Heffley 6 years ago
No one wants dead kids. But, how do you limit 'rights' ? Once we start with one, will others follow ? It is catastrophic, senseless, heartbreaking, and soul-crushing to hear about the damage gun violence does, one can only try to imagine what doctors go through...I could never tell a parent that their child is dead...just couldn't do it. But...again...how do we fix it ? Every 'right' is inviolate. How many criminals have gone free on technicalities, only to commit another crime (including murder?). Yet we don't want to repeal Amendments 4 thru 8. A solution, distasteful to be sure, but a solution nonetheless, is to arm everyone, install perimeter blockades (bullet proof glass, double entries, fingerprint encoded guns, etc). The 1800s saw everyone carrying a gun...yet the leading cause of death for males age 14-35 was falling off a horse, not being shot.
Bored Panda 6 years ago
One of the Justices said it best, "My right to swing my fist ends at your nose".
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Eliyahu Rooff 6 years ago
She and her NRA owners never bother to tell us who they think is an expert on gun violence. Should we make up panels of mass shooters to advise us?
Benjamin Stark 6 years ago (edited)
Ann Coulter's brain is in her r****m obviously - full of s***.
Francisco Rio Doce Martins 6 years ago
Didi she respond? And, by the way, I'm sure that only left-winged comments were shown here.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
This entire subject is horrible to even think about. However I do have one response to the tweeter who wrote: "...no one has ever been killed by a 9mm fully automatic gummi bear." It may not have happened yet, but it is certainly possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcdlYco87c
Kurt Mckenney 6 years ago
https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2018https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2018 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/special/st-louis-area-homicide-map/html_d39cb6cf-75e5-5c09-ac36-89bd66049aaf.html http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/la-city All things considered, I feel safer from a mass shooting than I do from living in a Blue City.
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
It is answered all the time, you just don't understand it. Do you miss how it works very well in other countries? Even ones that had the same problem you have now?
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Rosie Hamilton 6 years ago
Only guns were created purely to kill. Knives are fairly useful in the kitchen, even if just chopping a carrot. Fire cooks and keeps people warm. Rocks, natural phenomenon. People keep bringing up cars yet they are rather useful for moving great distances. It isn't relevant to compare guns with anything else. People are the evil and the ugly - all the more reason not to arm them with something that can kill many people and from a distance - those factors make guns stand out.
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Nosfentor 6 years ago
It's not our fault that you are a stupid and ignorant person.
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Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
Guns kill more people, more quickly and easily. They are a problem. Some states don't require guns to be locked away safely, unloaded. You must have seen AlphaPuck's comments - he is ready for an invasion and has them stashed all over his house.
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Aunt Messy 6 years ago
Translation: "I like what the idiots say because they do it with smaller words than smart people use."
Load More Replies... Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
Yeah- all those mass shootings, shootings in families/friends or accidental ones don't count just because YOU only see 97% of them coming from drug/gang violence. Great logic.
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Kiahna 6 years ago
Genius. Make all of the doctors retire and watch the world turn to s**t. If they don't do it, no one else will. We owe our lives to them.
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Person2638 6 years ago
We should still ban guns. Those individuals, we'll never be able to catch them all. Wouldn't it be much safer if we stop the weapon instead of trying to stop EVERYONE who wants to kill someone? That way, it would be MUCH harder for them to do any harm. I admit, it won't be impossible to stop them but making sure they don't have AK-47s will definitely be a large step towards a safer future. And that's what you want, right?
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Chris Jones 6 years ago
That IS the number being reported. What do you think it is and where do you get your information from?
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Martha Meyer 6 years ago
It does matter what tool they use, because you can't kill 100 people inside 5 minutes from a distant hotel room with a knife. You can with a gun.
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RuiRuichi 6 years ago
You have a point but then again the NRA doesn't own the lane regarding gun expertise to begin with.. In the medical field the NRA would be the quack doctors and shamans while the army and police being the real doctors.
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Person2638 6 years ago
1) Only the cultures where guns are legal is this a problem, maybe you can infer something from this. 2) Yes they were shooting others. The problem was that no one cared as much as they do today, so it wasn't a big deal. 3) Have you noticed that A LOT of shooters do believe in God? 4) Violent movies and social media usually do not cause you to shoot stuff, otherwise the entire world would be in chaos. 5) People with depression and envy should get help, not guns. 6) We had a lot of racism and less women's and gay rights 80 years ago, but things need to keep changing otherwise we won't get better.
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rola 6 years ago
there are strict regulations on literally everything you mentioned except your unnecessary personal opinion of black on black homicide
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The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
Kids have been murdered at schools. People "going after rifles" is not the problem here.
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Pamela24 6 years ago
A knife not only has another useful purpose but also its range is a few meters tops (if you throw it right...which I believe is not easy). Meanwhile pressing a trigger is a task a two-year-old can do (and many have - killing their relatives because of it), you can kill dozens of people within minutes and causing harm is the only thing the guns have a purpose for. How can you seriously compare knives with guns? Makes no sense.
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Aunt Messy 6 years ago
The most common disease afflicting Republicans these days is cranial/rectal inversion.
Load More Replies... Elizabeth Molloy 6 years ago
The American obsession with firearms is totally unfathomable to the rest of the world.
troufaki13 6 years ago
Pro-gun, anti-vaxxers... Are they're trying to eliminate the human race?
Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
@AlphaPuck That's the point- I will never have to pull a gun on anyone cos they are illegal here so they should be!!
Load More Replies... Rocky Joe 6 years ago
IMHO, like how USA has been "teaching" about democracy to tje third world country, I do believe USA can also learn from no-gun policy country.
Bored Panda 6 years ago
Americans are fearful of their countrymen, of immigrants, of children, of churchgoers, of music lovers, of Jews, of witches, and ogres and they need automatic weapons to make sure they can kill as many as possible in the shortest amount of time. The NRA, bless them, makes sure of this by funneling Russian funds to our elected officials. It's a unique American sickness.
Load More Replies... Wil Vanderheijden 6 years ago
This discussion will still be going on in 25 years. Gunlovers won't have anything to do with gun control and they are supported by the NRA that has bought a lot of politicians. No matter how many mass shootings there will be, the 2nd amandment is more important to them than all the lives that are destroyed. With the Trumpanzee as president it's safe to say that there will be no changes for the next couple of years.
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
And that's why they will eventually lose big. They refuse to be a part of the solution so the solution will happen without them and they won't like it at all. They could have worked with the rest of us to find a solution we could all live with but they refuse to give an inch and want the laws we currently have struck down. At some point the tide will turn and they will be washed away. And they have no one to blame but themselves (although like all "personal responsibility" right wingers they'll blame everyone else).
Load More Replies... rola 6 years ago
It's very sad when pro-gun people dismiss all the mass shootings and any gun control because of their unreasonable need to protect the US from a hypothetical invasion. People -CHILDREN- are being murdered here en masse and all they care about is having a personal arsenal. If they have acquired their guns legally, then no one is going to take their guns because they did it legally. If they think their guns are going to get taken away because of stricter gun control laws, then they must know something is wrong with themselves that they would not get through any stricter regulations.
Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Exactly. They say they need their guns to prevent a fascist take-over the USA. Weird because for eight solid years of the Obama Presidency they kept telling us that Obama was a fascist dictator. Yet they never took up arms to stop him. I suspect there are two reasons for that; 1) they're cowards at heart and know they could never go up against the USA. 2) They know they're full of s**t and that Obama was nowhere close to being a dictator.
Load More Replies... Paul K. Johnson 6 years ago
Gun nuts keep telling us how "responsible" they are. They act like every gun in the hands of a criminal just materialized out of thin air. What they never acknowledge is that EVERY gun that was lawfully manufactured in the first place was always in the hands of "responsible, law abiding" citizens until somehow it got into the hands of a criminal. So somehow these people who keep telling us how super-responsible they are lost control of their guns. They either didn't secure them well enough to prevent them from being stolen or they gave or sold them to a criminal. I understand that some places don't require a person to do a background check on someone before selling them a gun but the law is irrelevant. If you don't know for certain that a person is legally allowed to own a gun then the most irresponsible thing you can do is sell that person a gun regardless of the law. If it weren't for gun nuts, criminals wouldn't have guns in the first place. That's who they get them from.
Andres Tejeda 6 years ago
Ann Coulter and NRA telling doctors to stay in their lane on the gun control debate. Really the NRA is not an expert on anything, its just an organization that made up of ammosexuals and recliner Rambo's trying to protect the gun rights of white angry men. Ann coulter (Transgender Skeletor, no offense to transgeder people.) is just a self aggrandizing, right-wing talking head with opinions so vile and hateful that it would make the KKK blush. So please some one do the right thing and splash some what on that women. Maybe she will melt away.
Amanda Panda 6 years ago
I'm sorry ma'am... but you have idiocy, and I'm afraid it's terminal.
sunnyrei82 6 years ago
I don't get why so many americans are SO obsessed with their f*ing guns!!! Ugh! (Besides those who get rich by them, of course)
To Blave 6 years ago
For men, erectile dysfunction, I swear to God. Those whose guns don't work because of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes 2, resort to playing with other guns. For women, it's their husband's erectile dysfunction that manifests when they see the pig they married. Yes, Alpha Duck, I'm talking about you.
Load More Replies... Dian Ella Lillie 6 years ago
I throughly endorse what so many of these front-line medicos say. I really wish that Bored Panda would provide direct links to their tweets so that we could support them by retweeting the original tweets - trying to find each individually gets a bit laborious after a while, especially when the pitiful Australian excuse for a broadband burps...
Marija Bern 6 years ago
Thanks for the insight! We put links under every tweet now :)
Load More Replies... Wanda Queen 6 years ago
This is such a typical response from the far right. You don't need to know a damn thing about guns to understand gun violence. It's all just deflection. I don't have to be a dungbeetle to know that s**t stinks.
s¡rawrah Mornin 6 years ago
I get kinda sad just being on Facebook during the fall and seeking all the deer bears and wolves shot every year just for entertainment....i can't even comprehend this love of guns
diane a 6 years ago (edited)
I dont see the fun or point of killing wild animals for sport - or as a "hobby". Unless it is to eat, legitimately control numbers, or for specific animals posing a risk to humans or livestock - or to humanely kill an injured or sick one. I can't think of another good reasons these days. It is the "hey - we got guns lets go find something to shoot"
Load More Replies... Roberta Soolook 6 years ago
How could anyone, except perhaps an incredibly stupid person, not see that results of gun violence are totally in doctors' lanes.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
The biggest problem here isn't weapons, it's the American lifestyle and culture. It glorifies violence in music, film, everyday life. The countries in Europe and beyond without gun "control" as it were still have less gun violence because they don't propagate a culture based on glorifying violence. That's not to say that limiting gun use won't work either. In comparable countries that do, while there are attacks using knives and so on, the devastation and loss of life is measured as less significant because the attacker/s could not just pull out a semi and fire at random.
danielw 6 years ago
As a security guard, I'm more afraid of a screwdriver than a knife or gun. Like knives, screw drivers don't need ammo, make very little noise when used as a weapon, and are very tough to break. they never jam and even a total moron can figure out where the pointy end goes, and rather easy to conceal until it's too late. Unlike knives, they're not typically considered a weapon, so most people are like 'oh. he's going to fix something.' (well, yeah, the lock that's not opening, too.) The problem with most gun control bills right now is that they won't actually do anything to limit guns getting into the hands of criminals or people who mean to do harm. I carry for work, sometimes. (site dependent). with my relatively modest training, I can swap a mag out in half a second. So lets go to revolvers only, you say? yeah. moon clips. Oh, so lets go to single shot-only weapons. yeah... you should've seen my grampa with his .38 special service pistol... (fresco lines cop... the stories he told..)
Load More Replies... miten sasmita 6 years ago
I wonder just how much the gun manufacturers pay the republican politicians that they lose all eyes, ears and heart for the crisis they refuse to acknowledge. the rest of the world just don't understand what's so hard about gun control
Mark Fuller 6 years ago
Put simply... I don't get it America. Constitutional rights blah, blah, blah?? Maybe the constitution needs an amendment of another kind. Guns = murder. I'm English. I can own a gun, should I wish. I can participate in hunting and using gun ranges if I wanted to. But somehow we've achieved that without having daily incidents of mass murder. Doesn't feel like rocket science. And if people can't listen to these doctors or the families of patients, it'll never, EVER get better. Where exactly do your priorities lie?? With preservation of human life or violent materialism?
Granstef Ghostlapin 6 years ago
Someone should have told her first that gun violence is further out of the NRA lane : the only goal of the NRA is just to collect and give dirty money to rotten politicians just to repeat their official lies ? ! !
Michael Williams 6 years ago
Yes, only in America can Shock Jocks make millions of dollars flapping the jaw with self-centered s**t throwing. Where's the dummy about knives wiping out dozens of lives?
movie maven 6 years ago
made me ball uncontrollably. maybe more tragic to me also that it's been reduced down to social media baiting as of some sort of news bite, as though it's from Orwell's 1984. Coulter's logic never seems anything more than some pizzazzed-up unending circular logic that she presumes to be witty; yet it's nothing more than the usual ouroboros. the damage done is precisely the domain of those whose lives are spent dedicated to fight to save lives affected by such gun trauma. all life intersects & so do all lanes!
J. Kasilo 6 years ago
Yeah, she "presumes to be witty..." all the way to the bank with her logic...
Load More Replies... Gerry Higgins 6 years ago
Perhaps, if Anne Coulter asks the Wizard real nice he'll give her a heart.
sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
My thought, enough already, We all need to do something about the guns, too many die, especially innocent people !!!
Brianne Boleyn 6 years ago
Pretty sure, even if they are not an expert on gummy bears, they are an expert on what gummy bears/ sugary treats do to teeth. Just like doctors know what bullets going through a body will do to someone's health...
Brent Kaufman 6 years ago
So Anne Coulter was "put in her place" by a doctor's response that reduced the entire discussion to ad hominem attacks. I'm not saying that the NRA's or AC's comments were backed up with stats, but it wasn't ad hominem, which takes any discussion to the bottom of any barrel. But by all means, let's all cheer for those who can't back up their opinions with mature thoughts about the issue and have to start calling others insulting names.
Chris Oakley 4 years ago
It was Coulter who started the name-calling in the first place.
Load More Replies... NgatiDreadz 6 years ago
Nothing will change the minds of Americans and they gun laws if you can't change em when a bunch of elementary/high school kids get shot up then you're never gonna change em
Bob Hrzenak 6 years ago
I agree that gun violence is horrible. However, there are millions of honest decent citizens who own guns and are not mass murderers, or murderers at all. Ms. Coulter would have been wiser to point out that the carnage created by bullets was initiated by humans not the guns.
Mallee Man 6 years ago
I may not be a Gynaecologist, but I sure know a C**t when I see one Ms Coulter
Jason Yengst 6 years ago
I'm just trying to figure why they think there has been 307 mass shootings this year.
Janet Summers 6 years ago
Okay. Think of this. The criminals have a lot of guns, and can get them easily on the black market. So law-abiding citizens agree to a gun ban and hand in all their guns. They will then be easy prey for the criminals, because the criminals will not give up that advantage. Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, and one other city have the harshest gun control laws in the country, making it almost impossible to own a gun there. The gangs have guns, though, and they don't care who they kill. The police don't do anything because gangmembers are now made into victims in the news media. California has the strictest gun control laws of any state, so a lot of the shootings happen there, though Florida is catching up fast, and Florida is a purple state. The common theme among all these places that have lots of shootings is a strong presence of gun control, which tends to make me think it doesn't work. Also, London has passed NYC for homocides in a year. So shut your yaps, Brits.
Valerie Lessard 6 years ago
I'd like to address Mindy Keys since she was downvoted to hell so they remove the ability to reply. Mindy, I'm also a woman living alone in a big city and I completely, wholeheartedly, sincerely understand why you keep a gun. I'm not pro-gun or pro-violence but the reality is that in this world the situation we're in makes us vulnerable to being attacked. The very thought of having your personal space invaded and intruded upon, the place you go to relax and cook and rest, is a sickening thought. Women NEED something to protect themselves. We simply can't ignore the reality of that. There are countless women attacked/raped/murdered every week simply for existing, whether shes in her home or walking in the street (and yes, sometimes by other women). The problem is that if everyone were to have the same access to a weapon like that, it would make attackers all the more powerful. There's no real solution to this other than to perhaps shift the obsession with glorifying violence.
John Sadler 6 years ago
The real problem with the world... we talk about kids bullying but here are professional adults doing the same thing. Maybe we'd have less shootings if this type of bickering and name calling never happened in the first place.
Leah Harris 5 years ago
Amendment 2: The right to bare arms shall not be infringed. Whether I want it for hunting, skeet, or self defense. If you become an expert on guns because you remove bullets, then I am an expert on self defense for having been in a threatening situation. I don't care if youre a doctor or a burger flipper, you're "logic" makes no sense. I believe in classes to learn how to use your weapon properly, and to learn the laws. Thats the end of it. Making guns illegal or less accessible will take them out of the hands of law abiding citizens. Cocaine is illegal, but its still here. Meth is illegal, but its still here. Murder is illegal, but it still happens. Drinking under the age of 21 is illegal, but it still happens. Being drunk and driving is illegal, but it still happens. The vast majority of shootings are done by means of illegally obtained guns. I don't care what you pull of out someones a*s, you are not an expert.
Lewis Jones 6 years ago
' the 307th mass shooting in 311 days ' ABSOLUTE B******T, one of counted was a cop accidental discharge at night alone, no damage to anything and you fcks see MASS SHOOTING! How do you get up in the morning being so terrified of so much nonsense?
Not A Panda 6 years ago
Except she wasn't shut down. She's still talking. I do wish these articles' titles would stop being so stupid, it's making me want to visit less often. I come here for the fun stuff, if I want clickbait titles I'll visit viral.com or summat.
divydumdrop hello 6 years ago
it is bad how political and hateful we are on BOTH sides. Coulter and the NRA are rude and hateful over political issues and others are rude and hateful to them about political issues. Burns on twitter and anti republican comments are not going to solve this one!
Stephen Fritz 6 years ago
the only problem I had with any of this was the phrase "Fully semi automatic" I guess you could have a semi semi automatic, no that doesn't make sense either....
Algernon Blue 6 years ago
Scientists say there will be no comet to hit the earth in next 100 years. For some nihilistic reason I'm sad
Dr. Cheri Hayes 6 years ago
Congratulations, BP...you've done it again. Instead of putting up inspiring, funny, or unique stories, you continue to put up stories that just incite negative feelings and arguments in the comments.
Randa Ratliff 6 years ago
Call 911 , I witnessed a murder today. Dr. London killed it! And Ann Coulter needs to shut the f**k up!
Kim Lorton 6 years ago
When you see the impact a bullet wound has on someone, and where. And IF, it can even be removed, you would never utter those words, stay in. Your own lane, Annie get your gun coulter. I wouldn’t want you to have an opinion on anything like gun violence.
Mals Winter 6 years ago
Hi guys...want to sort this all out later..I don't think I will have the time to read all of your comments 😋 lol jk
Todd Chesser 6 years ago
Ann Coulter is a f*****g moron and I wonder, every time she raises her puny head to spew b******t, why anyone ever pays attention to her. Ever.
Ed Lesperance 6 years ago
Divide and conquer. As long as they keep arguing, nothing will be done.
Isabel Care 6 years ago
Send Ann Coulter a 5 pound bag of sugar free gummy bears. Sweet revenge.
Barry Cole 6 years ago
Once again you fail to grasp the concept that we have a culture and people problem, guns are only the tool of choice. Fortunately I have survived for quite a few decades. When I was in high school guns were present in the back windows of pickup trucks and we even had gun safety classes at school and in boy scouts in junior high. Nobody was shot or killed in our schools. What has changed in the last 30, 40 or 50 years to bring about the bloodbath we have today? Its really rather simple to see if one opens their eyes, our society does not value life as we once did. People are being desensitized to the violence that is now present in many aspects of our lives. Human life is devalued in violent video games, television shows and movies. Life is devalued in the pornography that is ever present on the internet. With the millions of lives lost through abortion and the availability of physician assisted suicides the value of human life is abandoned. You reap what you sow.
A Dyke From The Dreamworld 6 years ago
The only gun violence I will ever condone is shooting Ann Coulter.
Dan Heffley 6 years ago
No one wants dead kids. But, how do you limit 'rights' ? Once we start with one, will others follow ? It is catastrophic, senseless, heartbreaking, and soul-crushing to hear about the damage gun violence does, one can only try to imagine what doctors go through...I could never tell a parent that their child is dead...just couldn't do it. But...again...how do we fix it ? Every 'right' is inviolate. How many criminals have gone free on technicalities, only to commit another crime (including murder?). Yet we don't want to repeal Amendments 4 thru 8. A solution, distasteful to be sure, but a solution nonetheless, is to arm everyone, install perimeter blockades (bullet proof glass, double entries, fingerprint encoded guns, etc). The 1800s saw everyone carrying a gun...yet the leading cause of death for males age 14-35 was falling off a horse, not being shot.
Bored Panda 6 years ago
One of the Justices said it best, "My right to swing my fist ends at your nose".
Load More Replies... Eliyahu Rooff 6 years ago
She and her NRA owners never bother to tell us who they think is an expert on gun violence. Should we make up panels of mass shooters to advise us?
Benjamin Stark 6 years ago (edited)
Ann Coulter's brain is in her r****m obviously - full of s***.
Francisco Rio Doce Martins 6 years ago
Didi she respond? And, by the way, I'm sure that only left-winged comments were shown here.
M O'Connell 6 years ago
This entire subject is horrible to even think about. However I do have one response to the tweeter who wrote: "...no one has ever been killed by a 9mm fully automatic gummi bear." It may not have happened yet, but it is certainly possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgcdlYco87c
Kurt Mckenney 6 years ago
https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2018https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2018 https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-htmlstory.html https://www.stltoday.com/news/multimedia/special/st-louis-area-homicide-map/html_d39cb6cf-75e5-5c09-ac36-89bd66049aaf.html http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/la-city All things considered, I feel safer from a mass shooting than I do from living in a Blue City.
Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
It is answered all the time, you just don't understand it. Do you miss how it works very well in other countries? Even ones that had the same problem you have now?
Load More Replies... Rosie Hamilton 6 years ago
Only guns were created purely to kill. Knives are fairly useful in the kitchen, even if just chopping a carrot. Fire cooks and keeps people warm. Rocks, natural phenomenon. People keep bringing up cars yet they are rather useful for moving great distances. It isn't relevant to compare guns with anything else. People are the evil and the ugly - all the more reason not to arm them with something that can kill many people and from a distance - those factors make guns stand out.
Load More Replies... Nosfentor 6 years ago
It's not our fault that you are a stupid and ignorant person.
Load More Replies... Carrie de Luka 6 years ago
Guns kill more people, more quickly and easily. They are a problem. Some states don't require guns to be locked away safely, unloaded. You must have seen AlphaPuck's comments - he is ready for an invasion and has them stashed all over his house.
Load More Replies... Aunt Messy 6 years ago
Translation: "I like what the idiots say because they do it with smaller words than smart people use."
Load More Replies... Monika Rhodes 6 years ago
Yeah- all those mass shootings, shootings in families/friends or accidental ones don't count just because YOU only see 97% of them coming from drug/gang violence. Great logic.
Load More Replies... Kiahna 6 years ago
Genius. Make all of the doctors retire and watch the world turn to s**t. If they don't do it, no one else will. We owe our lives to them.
Load More Replies... Person2638 6 years ago
We should still ban guns. Those individuals, we'll never be able to catch them all. Wouldn't it be much safer if we stop the weapon instead of trying to stop EVERYONE who wants to kill someone? That way, it would be MUCH harder for them to do any harm. I admit, it won't be impossible to stop them but making sure they don't have AK-47s will definitely be a large step towards a safer future. And that's what you want, right?
Load More Replies... Chris Jones 6 years ago
That IS the number being reported. What do you think it is and where do you get your information from?
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 6 years ago
It does matter what tool they use, because you can't kill 100 people inside 5 minutes from a distant hotel room with a knife. You can with a gun.
Load More Replies... RuiRuichi 6 years ago
You have a point but then again the NRA doesn't own the lane regarding gun expertise to begin with.. In the medical field the NRA would be the quack doctors and shamans while the army and police being the real doctors.
Load More Replies... Person2638 6 years ago
1) Only the cultures where guns are legal is this a problem, maybe you can infer something from this. 2) Yes they were shooting others. The problem was that no one cared as much as they do today, so it wasn't a big deal. 3) Have you noticed that A LOT of shooters do believe in God? 4) Violent movies and social media usually do not cause you to shoot stuff, otherwise the entire world would be in chaos. 5) People with depression and envy should get help, not guns. 6) We had a lot of racism and less women's and gay rights 80 years ago, but things need to keep changing otherwise we won't get better.
Load More Replies... rola 6 years ago
there are strict regulations on literally everything you mentioned except your unnecessary personal opinion of black on black homicide
Load More Replies... The Girl on Fire 6 years ago
Kids have been murdered at schools. People "going after rifles" is not the problem here.
Load More Replies... Pamela24 6 years ago
A knife not only has another useful purpose but also its range is a few meters tops (if you throw it right...which I believe is not easy). Meanwhile pressing a trigger is a task a two-year-old can do (and many have - killing their relatives because of it), you can kill dozens of people within minutes and causing harm is the only thing the guns have a purpose for. How can you seriously compare knives with guns? Makes no sense.
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