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The Gun Owning Doctors Changing the Gun Debate

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

This week doctors from all over America took to social media with the hashtag #ThisIsMyLane (or #ThisIsOurLane). They sent pictures of themselves in blood-drenched scrubs and shared stories of treating victims of gun violence. Much of this was in response to the NRA after a tweet they sent last Wednesday.

Today on the show we talk to Dr. Brendan Campbell – a pediatric surgeon at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, CT. He has treated victims of gun violence for more than a decade. This week, he and his fellow colleagues released a new paper in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons recommending new ways to think about gun safety. Not only as doctors who have seen the damage that a gun can do, but because they own guns themselves.


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0:00.0

Okay, so how many guns do you own and what kinds?

0:04.6

So I own a variety of different guns.

0:09.0

I own 22 firearms, seven shotguns.

0:12.6

I own four hand guns, five rifles, and I have a couple of antique sort of collector-type guns.

0:19.9

And they're all in a big safe together?

0:21.6

They are all in a big safe together in my house.

0:24.6

Brendan Campbell lives in Hartford, Connecticut.

0:27.6

He actually huns deer with a bow and arrow,

0:29.6

but he shoots duck and geese with the firearms in that safe.

0:33.6

He's been into guns since he was 12 years old at Boy Scout camp.

0:44.6

You know, one of the activities we did was going to the rifle range and shooting a 22-caliber rifle.

0:46.5

And I enjoyed it.

0:47.5

It was kind of cool.

0:49.2

I didn't have guns in my house.

0:50.6

And I don't know.

0:52.2

There was something mysterious about it.

1:03.8

Anyway, the interest that I had in the Boy Scouts at the Rifle Range sort of evolved into an interest in hunting.

1:05.5

And, you know, some of my buddies in high school were small game hunters and were always

1:10.2

inviting me to go out.

1:11.4

And when my 16th birthday was coming up and my parents asked me what I wanted, I said,

1:17.1

geez, you know, I want a shotgun so I can, you know, have my own gun when I go hunting

1:21.6

with my buddies.

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