Fred Grimm: Gun lobby sets sights on surgeon general nominee

Well, we’ve done it. The Miami Herald exposed Vivek Murthy’s “radical anti-gun agenda” and pretty well ruined his chances for confirmation as the next U.S. Surgeon General....

We were so very prescient, sabotaging his career back on June 9, 1994, when we gave Murthy a platform for his anti-gun blasphemy and published his quote about “society’s preoccupation with firearms and brutal methods of conflict resolution.”

Two decades later, Murthy’s comments in The Herald have been dredged up and published in an op-ed by David Martosko, the former executive editor of the very right-wing Daily Caller, providing crucial ammo in the gun lobby’s assault on his nomination.

To be fair to Murthy, at the time he uttered his sacrilege it was not yet considered impermissible for a physician to worry aloud about gun violence. Another 17 years would pass before the Florida legislature passed Docs Versus Glocks, the gag law prohibiting doctors from asking patients about gun ownership....



Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/03/29/4026452_fred-grimm-gun-lobby-sets-sights.html#storylink=cpy

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