Food for thought …. this senseless killings have to stop!!
Who do I think I’m kidding. You already know, without anything to back it up, which side of the title question I come out on.
About a month ago, I came across an editorial in an online medical journal that has been on my mind ever since.
Is American Gun Ownership a Form of Addiction?
In it, George D. Lundberg, MD, persuasively argued that maybe the vehemence of gun owners protecting their so-called “right to bear arms” isn’t so much an intellectual argument as one fueled by addiction. And I think that Dr. Lundberg may be on to something.
He first listed the nine symptoms of substance addiction:
- Availability of the agent for experimentation;
- Initial use producing pleasure followed by subsequent pleasant episodes of use and positive secondary reinforcement;
- Psychological dependence or habituation;
- Tolerance, with need to use more to get the same effect;
- Chemical physical dependence;
- Withdrawal symptoms when…
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