VA OD’s On Anti-Gun RX

“The presence of firearms in households has been linked to increased risk of injury or death for everyone in or around the home” and “Firearms in the home can increase the possibility of completing suicide.” Not only that, while locking up guns is a good idea, “The best way to reduce gun risks is to remove the gun from your home. . . . The safest action is to get rid of the guns.”

Sounds familiar, of course. But this time, the anti-gun propaganda isn’t from one of the handful of people in the medical field that the Joyce Foundation pays hundreds of thousands of dollars to write up “studies” characterizing guns as too dangerous for private individuals to possess. Instead, it’s from a federal government entity whose employees apparently read such stuff and, through some combination of naïveté, ignorance and bias, fall for it.

In this instance, the anti-gun message comes from the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of the Medical Inspector and Geriatrics and Extended Care Strategic Healthcare Group. The VA’s statements appear in a pamphlet called “Firearms and Dementia” which, the name of the pamphlet notwithstanding, is directed at anyone who has a child, in addition to people who are responsible for individuals suffering from decreased mental acuity.-[source]