Quack of the Week: Dr. Mike Ackermann (Arm Yourself and Shoot to Kill: That's How We Make Countries Safer)

Ok so we try to focus on science here at the bayblab, and I think it's best to be apolitical as a scientist - but I can't resist commenting on this story. I'm neither anti-left wing nor right-wing politics - we need both - but I am anti-stupid politics. And generally, the current Conservative government takes the cake in the stupid department.

Here's Nova Scotia Dr. (obviously never worked in an emergency room) Mike Ackermann's solution to gun violence in our schools:

"If even 1 per cent of the students and staff at Virginia Tech had been allowed to exercise their right to self defence, then this tragedy would have been stopped in its very beginning and dozens of lives would have been saved," Dr. Mike Ackermann, a Nova Scotia physician, wrote in a letter to the Ottawa Sun in April. "There are never any mass killings at shooting ranges; only at schools and other so-called `gun-free zones.'"

Yes, that's right Dr. Retard, schools are gun free zones. That's because, last I checked, people were supposed to be getting an education there, not meeting in the schoolyard at high noon for a shootout at 20 paces.

Sounds like Dr. Mike is more interested in representing the St. Mary's Shooters Association (he is President), rather than the health interests of Canadians. Good to know he's one of the many pro-wild west "experts" on the current parliamentry committee on gun control. Hmmm...I wonder what the recommendations will be? An AK-47 for every teacher??!!