{"id":73065,"date":"2017-06-28T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73065"},"modified":"2017-06-28T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:25:29","slug":"ralph-northam-virginias-gun-control-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73065","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Northam; Virginia’s gun control Lt Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam<\/a>, doesn’t like guns, more accurately, he doesn’t like that you have guns. He likes to tell his constituents that he grew up on the Eastern shore, so that means that he’s just like you – he hunts, so guns are his friends. But he hasn’t seen a gun control measure in the legislature that he won’t vote for.<\/p>\n

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His favorite line when talking about gun control is explaining to people that he treated “assault weapon” victims as a doctor in the Army during Desert Storm. <\/p>\n

As an Army veteran and a doctor\u2014and an Eastern Shore native who grew up hunting\u2014Ralph knows the damage weapons can do. That\u2019s why he\u2019s been a staunch advocate for commonsense gun safety laws since his time in the state senate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I witnessed the damage these guns can do firsthand as an Army doctor during the First Gulf War.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, he was indeed a doctor during Desert Storm, according to the NPRC;<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure how many wounded soldiers he treated though. He was a child neurologist working at the Army’s Landstuhl Hospital in Germany. The way I understand neurologists, they treat brain diseases not gunshot wounds. It looks like he specialized in child neurology before, during and after the time he was at Landstuhl.<\/p>\n

I know that Landstuhl played an important part during the latest wars in the Middle East as the hospital that treated casualties evacuated from Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, etc… At the time of Desert Storm, however, the 97th General Hospital in Frankfort was the primary hospital for evacuated casualties. The 97th closed in June 1992.<\/p>\n

Now, he didn’t exactly lie about his service, he was a Major, he was a doctor, he served during Desert Storm, but I’m pretty sure a child neurologist wouldn’t be treating wounded soldiers, except in emergency circumstances – extreme emergencies.<\/p>\n

He can be against the private ownership of guns, that’s fine, everyone has a right to their opinions, no matter how misinformed that opinion might be…but he should leave the Army out of it. He comes off as another elitist asshole who is holier than thou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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