A Heritage Manufacturing pistol on display at the 148th NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits on April 27 in Indianapolis. By Nikki Stamp April 30 at 4:30 PM Nikki Stamp is a heart and lung surgeon in Perth, Australia.That may be an odd thing for me to note, given that I am a surgeon. After all, we see news of gun violence all the time. Over the weekend, we heard about a gunman in California who opened fire in a synagogue, killing one and injuring three.
Despite working in busy trauma centers around Australia for more than 16 years, I have found that gun violence is a rarity in our hospitals. My experience is not unusual; very few of my colleagues have ever seen more than a handful of gunshot wounds. Most of the trauma in this country is related to car accidents.
Following Port Arthur, not only have gun-related homicides dropped, but gun-inflicted suicides have fallen as well, with some reports showing as much as a 58-percent decrease. The only mass shooting involving more than five people was in 2018 when a man murdered his family and then killed himself with a lawfully owned weapon.
But in the two times I have seen gunshot wounds in my career, my thoughts fell to my colleagues in the United States. They are always shocked at how little gun violence I have seen as a surgeon. Once, while teaching a surgical course in Europe a few years ago, I relayed the paltry number of gunshot wounds I’ve treated, and my colleagues — mostly Americans — were amazed, noting that they would see one every hour. Some saw more than that.
PostOpinions Surgeons working in vast tracts of peaceful America could make the same statement. It's the docs serving the urban crime-ridden combat zones who are seeing all the GSWs.
PostOpinions Until Congress can get some balls, we will continue to see shootings in America.
PostOpinions There must be some kind of manhood problem in Australia.
PostOpinions So many holes
PostOpinions Trust me, you wouldn’t care about a few thousand more dead people if you knew that they were dying so grown men could have toys.
PostOpinions and yet we have a high per capita gun ownership gun violence has other cultural factors. Ownership is a poor predictor
PostOpinions not enough rap music over there. or cowboy movies.
PostOpinions that was the report after the Christchurch massacre the doctors had never seen gunshot wounds and were searching for info on how to deal with people hit 3 and 4 times
PostOpinions I've lived in America 50 years, I've only known 1 person that has been shot. . What's the point of this article?
PostOpinions Anyone who doesn't like the 2A should move there...good riddance.
PostOpinions Probably a white surgeon and only treats white people,it is Australia after all.
PostOpinions Blame the French.. UK, NZ, Australia and Canada.. all Commenwealth nations with free healthcare & minimal guns 👌perhaps libertere, egalitare and fraternite needs more than an ancient Constitution
PostOpinions There are literally thousands of American surgeons who have never seen a gun shot wound.
PostOpinions How many sling shot wounds though?
PostOpinions America, you’ve got problems girlfriend.
PostOpinions If you get shot don't go to this guy
PostOpinions the funniest part of your countrys gunocide is how the gun crowd equates owning a gun with freedom, your the only democratic society without freedom because your authoritarian gun “rights” create a society built on intimidation and fear, people who live in fear r not free
PostOpinions Isn’t amazing how fewer people get shot, when fewer people have guns... GunReformNow MarchForOurLives
PostOpinions Come to Malaysia, you will see none.
PostOpinions But how Many wild Animal bits have you seen
PostOpinions Maybe it's due to the fact that he's one surgeon and Australia is an Island without having cartel countries like mexico on it's open border.
PostOpinions Missing out on that sweet mob doctor money 💴
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PostOpinions Yeah because they hardly have any gangs.
PostOpinions Well come to America then!
PostOpinions Oh!