Docs, Glocks and Spin

Your doctor may be a liar, like Lisa Cosgrove, president of the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  In their law suit in Florida she said with an apparently straight face to the press:

"Your pediatrician has the responsibility to discuss with you and other patients the scientifically-proven risks to children posed by guns in the home. With 65 children and teens shot and eight of them killed every day in the United States, restricting the ability of pediatricians to fully discuss the significant risks posed by guns is dangerous, and a violation of the standard of care we as physicians owe our patients."

How has she lied?  Let us count the ways:

1. "... the scientifically-proven risks to children posed by guns in the home."  Every claim of this flavor (kids and guns) has been denounced and debunked.  Aurthur Kellerman's 47 times illegit study and the "13 children a day" canard have repeatedly and routinely been shown to be false (see Gun Facts @ www.GunFacts.info for details).
2. "With 65 children and teens shot and eight of them killed every day ..." This number includes all teen gang members exchanging fire with other gang members, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics notes that 94% of gun homicides are gang related.  I doubt a pediatrician will talk a crack addled inner-city mom from disarming her Crip kid.
3. Related to the above, only 51 children (people under 13) died from guns in any manner over the entire year last reported by the CDC.  Her numbers (eight dead per day) comes to 2,920 a year, way above what the CDC indicates.

Cosgrove's con comes from freely mixing different people and means of death as freely as she obviously mixes booze and her antidepressants.