Pediatricians to Push for Gun Control on Capitol Hill

Once again pediatricians lead the charge of doctors dedicated to taking away your constitutional right to own guns. The American Academy of Pediatrics was still insisting the 2nd Amendment was about state militias for four years after the Heller decision in 2008.  They have consistently refused to work with the real experts on gun safety—the NRA, NSSF, and innumerable state and local gun clubs—to teach the public gun safety.  They still talk about wanting to ban semiautomatic weapons, which means most modern firearms.  They refuse to even recognize criminology research showing responsible gun ownership to be a net social good.

Let’s see, what does that leave? It seems that all the pediatricians have is an emotional aversion to the empowerment that having a gun gives to good citizens. An abnormal fear of firearms is not enough to form the basis for sound public policy.

Here’s the story in The Hill