Sharp as a Marble
HomeAboutContactSyndicationLogin
 

Because it is clear that easy access to drugs with the knowledge of how to use them is forcing physicians to commit suicide

And when the pain is too much, doctors have easy access to prescription drugs and a precise knowledge of both how the body works and the amount of a drug needed for an overdose to stop breathing and halt the heart.

"All physicians have access to neat, clean ways to commit suicide," said Dr. Robert Lehmberg, a Little Rock, Ark., surgeon who has battled depression and long considered suicide "an exit strategy if absolutely necessary."

First off, I say a 3 day waiting period to obtain prescription drugs is in order, as a cool off time to ensure the person isn't going to commit suicide with them. Also, we need stricter background checks on doctors to make sure they don't do these kinds of things. Third, we need to restrict the manufacturing of these so-called "assault pills" who's only purpose is to kill people quietly and painlessly. Death should hurt and be really, really messy apparently.

Because that's what the anti's tell us all the time - that even though most of the deaths from firearms are suicides, if it weren't for the gun, people wouldn't kill themselves. I guess the same logic can apply to medicine, then.

Of course, there's that small, small chance that people who have decided to take their lives wish to do so in the least painful way and the tool used, be it a firearm or pill-bottle, has no bearing on the decision itself, only the method, but that'd go against gun grabber logic wouldn't it?

rolled out on Friday, May 09, 2008 11:04 AM
Comments
 re: It is time to stop the easy access to pharmaceuticals - Hemlock

Rolled Out On: 5/9/2008 7:40 PM

There should also be a ban on large capacity pill bottles and easy grip lids that allow from the hip dispensing. Pills should come in a gallon sized, non-concealable jug that only holds 2, because no one needs more than 2 pills at any one time, right? Image recognition should be built into pill bottles so the wrong person cannot gain access for misuse. And for gosh sakes lets ban bottle shrouds!!! You know, that thing that goes up.

Thanks for the laugh Robb, its been a tough day.

 re: It is time to stop the easy access to pharmaceuticals - Toejam

Rolled Out On: 5/10/2008 9:53 AM

I happen to know that in Ireland the law prevents the sale of more than 12-over-the-counter "pain-killers" at one time.

Ibuprofen (asprin) types aren't normally available. They use Paracetamol, which I think is similar to Tylanol.

Of course, they can't stop you from paying visits to variouis pharmacies in town and buying 12 in each store.

I believe this silly law was the product of the "pharmacist's lobby to keep the price of "pain-killers" high.

Comments have been closed on this topic.
 
TipJar
2A Blogger Bash
Wanna Chat?
Click here!
Other bloggers with guns.

Article Categories


General

Archives


July, 2008 (84)
June, 2008 (80)
May, 2008 (79)
April, 2008 (53)
March, 2008 (46)
February, 2008 (46)
January, 2008 (63)
December, 2007 (69)
November, 2007 (63)
October, 2007 (83)
September, 2007 (73)
August, 2007 (84)
July, 2007 (59)
June, 2007 (63)
May, 2007 (35)
April, 2007 (30)
March, 2007 (37)
February, 2007 (32)
January, 2007 (38)
December, 2006 (14)
November, 2006 (28)
October, 2006 (25)
September, 2006 (24)
August, 2006 (28)
July, 2006 (27)
June, 2006 (28)
May, 2006 (14)
April, 2006 (17)
March, 2006 (35)
February, 2006 (33)
January, 2006 (26)
December, 2005 (15)
November, 2005 (22)
October, 2005 (35)
September, 2005 (37)
August, 2005 (50)
July, 2005 (34)
June, 2005 (55)
May, 2005 (53)
April, 2005 (56)
March, 2005 (57)
February, 2005 (77)
January, 2005 (72)
December, 2004 (79)
November, 2004 (76)
October, 2004 (59)
September, 2004 (74)
August, 2004 (69)
July, 2004 (75)
June, 2004 (56)
May, 2004 (28)

Post Categories


2A Blog Bash (rss)
A Cancer Story (rss)
Anti-Rights Idiocy (rss)
Anxiety & Panic Attacks (rss)
Blackwater training (rss)
Blogging (rss)
Brewsky (rss)
Catblogging (rss)
Daughter Blogging (rss)
Firearm Safety (rss)
Geekdom (rss)
Getting old sucks (rss)
Gun Myths (rss)
Gun Rights (rss)
Gun-Free Zones (rss)
Guns. Lots of Guns. (rss)
Humor (rss)
Law-abding gun owners (rss)
News (rss)
NRA (rss)
Out of sight, out of mind (rss)
Photography (rss)
Politics (rss)
Range Time (rss)
Recipes (rss)
Reloading (rss)
Self Defense (rss)
The Line Is Here (rss)
TMI (rss)
Views (rss)
War on Terror (rss)
Wingnuts and Moonbats (rss)

Image Galleries


Beyond the Pale brewing session

::Other Digs


The Line Is Here

::Sharpest Marbles


Eject! Eject! Eject!
Instapundit
Iraq the Model
Protein Wisdom
QandO
Sharp as a Marble
Vodka Pundit
WILLisms
Witting Shire
Wizbang

:Second Amendment


A Keyboard and a .45
Alphecca
Anthroblogogy
Armed and Safe
Call Me Ahab
Carnaby Fudge
Days of our Trailers
Double Tapper
Dustin's Gun Blog
Fighting for Liberty
Great Blue Whale
Gun Owners Against Violence
Gun Pundit
Guntards
Justin Buist
Mike-istan
Musings of the Geek with a 45
Oleg Volk
Papa Delta Bravo
Politics, Guns, and Beer
Pro-Gun Progressive
Random Nuclear Strikes
Ride Fast and Shoot Straight
Roberta X
Say Uncle
Sear and Hammer
Snowflakes in Hell
The Anarchangel
The Armed Schoolteacher
The Bitch Girls
The Breda Fallacy
The Countertop Chronicles
The Law Dog Files
The Liberty Sphere
The Mad Rocket Scientist
The Madman Raves
The Other Side of Kim
The Pretty Pistolera
The Sentinel
The Smallest Minority
The View From North Central Idaho
The War on Guns
View from the porch
West, By God
Xavier thoughts

Blogroll


Guide to Midwestern Culture
Basil's Blog
Captain's Quarters
Coalition of the Swilling
Cold Fury
Cranky Neocon
Daily Pundit
dorkafork
File It Under
Florida Cracker
Garfield Ridge
INDC Journal
Is Full Of Crap
Medium at Large
Notes from the trenches
One Ping Only
Sean Gleeson
Sekimori
Sissy Willis
Six Meat Buffet
Speed of thought
Squeaky Wheel Seeks Grease
The Belmont Club
The Munchkin Wrangler
The Spoons Experience
The Unforgiving Minute
Tim Worstall
UNSpace
Vern's Blog

Extended Blogroll


21st Century Paladin
Bill Peschel
Cowboy Blob
Craziness
Flight Pundit
Hubs and Spokes
In the Right
PEER Review
TechnoChitlins
The Tygrrrr Express

Funny, as in Ha-ha


Ace of Spades HQ
Cox & Forkum
IMAO
ScrappleFace
The Superficial
Topic Drift
Wuzzadem

Good Reads


Drink This
Evil White Guy
Leaning to the Right
Ramble Strip
Save the Soldiers
SondraK
The Resplendent Mango
Triticale
You Big Mouth You

Tampa Area Blogs


Tampa Film Fan

My Technorati Conversations

Hang in there Mom

Cool Post-it Note Icon