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CRPA Condemns Kaiser Permanente
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CRPA Condemns Kaiser Permanente
Campaign Against Gun Ownership
MISLEADING ANTI-GUN PROPAGANDA IN DOCTOR'S OFFICES
The California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA) (official state
affiliate association of the National Rifle Association) today condemned an
inaccurate anti-gun smear campaign being run through Kaiser Permanente
doctors' offices. Kaiser is foisting its inaccurate anti-gun message on
patients through misleading and false statistics contained in posters and
brochures.
The Kaiser doctors are advising: "For the safety of your children, don't
keep a gun in your home." "Guns in the home are hazardous to your family's
health." Promoting an image of gun owners as unstable and violent, one of the
posters claims: "Teenagers and young adults are prone to wide mood swings.
The availability of a gun can turn an otherwise harmless moment of
frustration or anger into a deadly tragedy." By this reasoning the junior
shooters who participate in the CRPA Junior Championship Rifle Match are just
budding young criminals, rather than responsible and mature young people that
we trust to shoot safely.
The brochures advise readers to seek more information about "firearms
injury prevention" by contacting, not the true firearms safety experts at
CRPA or NRA, but Physicians for Social Responsibility and the American
Academy of Pediatrics. These two gun-hating groups know nothing about gun
safety, and care nothing about gun owners. And now Kaiser seems to be in bed
with them.
"The Kaiser anti-gun posters are apparently calculated to turn Kaiser
members against the idea of owning guns." said Chuck Michel, CRPA spokesman.
"Kaiser ignores the fact that the vast majority of gun accidents occur in
dysfunctional homes where substance abuse or criminal behavior is common."
Kaiser also neglects to mention fourteen separate studies that confirm that
guns are used over two million times per year to defend lives (usually
without a shot being fired), five times more often than they are misused.
Criminal misuse of firearms is down. And the number of firearm accidents is
at its lowest level ever, despite increased firearm ownership. Thus firearms
have social value as a tool for self-defense and as an effective deterrent to
violence and crime.
CRPA's 70,000 members include law enforcement officers, prosecutors,
professionals, firearm experts, the general public, and loving parents. CRPA
instructors have been teaching safe and responsible firearms ownership to
those who choose to own a gun for sport or self-defense for over 125 years.
CRPA has a variety of effective crime prevention and gun safety programs
available. These include informational brochures such as CRPA's Know Your
California Gun Laws, safety guidelines, civilian gun safety and firearm
education classes; the award-winning Eddie Eagle GunSafe program, which
teaches kids to stay away from guns (www.eaglepak.org); Project HomeSafe
(www.projecthomesafe.org), which distributes free gun safety locks; "Don't
Lie for the Other Guy," which enlists firearm dealers to fight illegal gun
purchases and "straw purchases" (www.nafr.org); "Refuse To Be A Victim,"
which teaches a variety of personal safety techniques
(www.nrahq.org/safety/rtbav); Operation Ceasefire,a strategic crime fighting
alliance between police and gun dealers; and a host of other programs. These
efforts have proven successful across the nation, including many cities in
California where they are currently used.
http://www.crpa.org/pressrls042302.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Campaign Against Gun Ownership
MISLEADING ANTI-GUN PROPAGANDA IN DOCTOR'S OFFICES
The California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA) (official state
affiliate association of the National Rifle Association) today condemned an
inaccurate anti-gun smear campaign being run through Kaiser Permanente
doctors' offices. Kaiser is foisting its inaccurate anti-gun message on
patients through misleading and false statistics contained in posters and
brochures.
The Kaiser doctors are advising: "For the safety of your children, don't
keep a gun in your home." "Guns in the home are hazardous to your family's
health." Promoting an image of gun owners as unstable and violent, one of the
posters claims: "Teenagers and young adults are prone to wide mood swings.
The availability of a gun can turn an otherwise harmless moment of
frustration or anger into a deadly tragedy." By this reasoning the junior
shooters who participate in the CRPA Junior Championship Rifle Match are just
budding young criminals, rather than responsible and mature young people that
we trust to shoot safely.
The brochures advise readers to seek more information about "firearms
injury prevention" by contacting, not the true firearms safety experts at
CRPA or NRA, but Physicians for Social Responsibility and the American
Academy of Pediatrics. These two gun-hating groups know nothing about gun
safety, and care nothing about gun owners. And now Kaiser seems to be in bed
with them.
"The Kaiser anti-gun posters are apparently calculated to turn Kaiser
members against the idea of owning guns." said Chuck Michel, CRPA spokesman.
"Kaiser ignores the fact that the vast majority of gun accidents occur in
dysfunctional homes where substance abuse or criminal behavior is common."
Kaiser also neglects to mention fourteen separate studies that confirm that
guns are used over two million times per year to defend lives (usually
without a shot being fired), five times more often than they are misused.
Criminal misuse of firearms is down. And the number of firearm accidents is
at its lowest level ever, despite increased firearm ownership. Thus firearms
have social value as a tool for self-defense and as an effective deterrent to
violence and crime.
CRPA's 70,000 members include law enforcement officers, prosecutors,
professionals, firearm experts, the general public, and loving parents. CRPA
instructors have been teaching safe and responsible firearms ownership to
those who choose to own a gun for sport or self-defense for over 125 years.
CRPA has a variety of effective crime prevention and gun safety programs
available. These include informational brochures such as CRPA's Know Your
California Gun Laws, safety guidelines, civilian gun safety and firearm
education classes; the award-winning Eddie Eagle GunSafe program, which
teaches kids to stay away from guns (www.eaglepak.org); Project HomeSafe
(www.projecthomesafe.org), which distributes free gun safety locks; "Don't
Lie for the Other Guy," which enlists firearm dealers to fight illegal gun
purchases and "straw purchases" (www.nafr.org); "Refuse To Be A Victim,"
which teaches a variety of personal safety techniques
(www.nrahq.org/safety/rtbav); Operation Ceasefire,a strategic crime fighting
alliance between police and gun dealers; and a host of other programs. These
efforts have proven successful across the nation, including many cities in
California where they are currently used.
http://www.crpa.org/pressrls042302.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
Go figure.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain