The “public health” aspect also does not include the positive effects of gun ownership (eg, conceal/open carry). It’s pretty easy to believe that wearing a seat belt or not smoking are better for your health. But with an estimated 500k-3M defensive gun uses annually, how many violent crimes are prevented by owning firearms. When that is thrown into the equation, guns save more lives than they take by 10-100x, and most of those that they do take are self-inflicted (suicide) or gang / drug related.

And that’s their problem, “a long and proud history of public health scholars, doctors, and activists taking a health framework to consumer products” made them think they knew it all.

Its not a “consumer product” you morons even though there is a ‘consumer product’ involved. You can’t ‘cure’ a person from having a constitutional right, you can’t apply a ‘health’ aspect to it and expect a ‘cure’ because having a constitutional right is not a disease. You idiots need to understand, the Second Amendment is an inherent unalienable right (as are all the first 10 of the Bill of Rights) we are (as American citizens) born with this right, its there, its part of us just as our hands and feet or any other body part is, even if a person never exercises the right or hates the right it is still part of them and they still have it – its nature, it was built into us from the very moment mankind first stood upright as its grounded in the natural and inherent right to defense. There is no ‘disease’ to prevent or cure, that’s why your “health framework to consumer products” fails, that’s why your ego fails to achieve the end you desire.

Imagine if that same approach was taken with a mental health issue perpetuated by a certain destructive ideology where it is estimated that 30 percent of those suffering from it seriously consider suicide. Or the current disturbing trend of them lashing out and committing mass homicide as seen in Nashville, and other cities.

(Pre-emptive edit – It would be really sweet if those that service the back-end code could add the ability to edit comments after they are posted…)