{"id":61087,"date":"2015-07-29T13:42:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61087"},"modified":"2015-07-29T13:45:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:45:29","slug":"va-psychiatrist-in-forum-discussion-off-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61087","title":{"rendered":"VA psychiatrist in forum discussion: &#8220;Off yourself&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2015\/07\/29\/totally-inappropriate-facebook-comment-aimed-at-gun-owner-could-land-va-psychiatrist-in-big-trouble\/\">The Blaze<\/a> which reports that this fellow, Gregg Gorton, a VA psychiatrist, according to his Facebook profile, in a discussion about guns on the Washington Times, told a pro-gun support that he should &#8220;off yourself&#8221;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/28\/va-doctor-regrets-post-telling-gun-advocate-to-off\/\">Washington Times<\/a> says that he regrets the statement now;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s just one of those moments you\u2019d rather take back in your life,\u201d Gorton told The Associated Press. \u201cI\u2019ve worked 30 years to treat psychiatric patients. I teach about suicide prevention. \u2026 That\u2019s not me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then who the f*** was it Greggy? At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/veterans\/2015\/07\/28\/va-doctor-regrets-post-telling-gun-advocate-to-off-himself\/30807737\/\">Military Times<\/a>, they report that Gorton doesn&#8217;t consider himself a gun-control activist. <\/p>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s pretty radical response for someone isn&#8217;t a gun control fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Especially someone who could indiscriminately take gun owning rights from veterans.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a culture thing that needs to change at the VA. Thanks for illustrating that for us, Greg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link from The Blaze which reports that this fellow, Gregg Gorton, a &hellip; <a title=\"VA psychiatrist in forum discussion: &#8220;Off yourself&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61087\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA psychiatrist in forum discussion: &#8220;Off yourself&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}