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Almost dies in a mass shooting.......opposes ban on assault weapons.
Needs a stem cell transplant.......opposed embryonic stem cell research in 2020.
I'm sorry the guy's sick but damn if he isn't the poster boy for hypocrisy.
I disagree with this guy on everything so it compelled me to read the article.
He's receiving an autologous stem cell transplant. They came from his own body.
It's a bone marrow transplant back from his own healthy cells that they harvested before they got rid of the cancerous cells via chemotherapy.
Still a douche when it comes to embryonic stem cell research, though.
For autologous stem cell research to run embryonic stem cell research had to walk.
Source: am guessing
*almost dies in a mass shooting and is saved by a black lesbian
still votes against gun safety and lgbtq rights
I'm all for gun control but the guy who shot Scalise did it with an SKS and a handgun. Neither of those are classified as assault weapons.
I don't know the exact details of the weapon he used, but there are aftermarket detachable magazine mods for the SKS that are fairly common (though I've often heard they're pretty unreliable) that would make them qualify as an assault weapon under many assault weapon laws.
im fine with banning both
I thought the SKS was a knockoff AK-47?
They fire the same rounds but I wouldn't really consider them a knockoff. SKS was made sort of as an answer to the M1 carbine and other lighter shorter weapons. This was in comparison to the Mosin Nagant which is a big beefy boy and hard to lug around. Also the SKS was designed 4 years before the AK47.
I was never a big "gun guy", so my limited exposure was during the gun shows of the 90s. They'd always have AKs and SKSs (I believe they were Chinese manufactured) on display/sale. Extended family members bought a few just before Michigan's (now expired) ban went into effect. As a kid, they all looked about the same to me (fired the same ammo, interchangeable clips, etc).
So I learned something new today and I appreciate your response.
You're likely thinking of the Galil
I know it's kind of ironic, but in this case it's more specifically an autologous stem cell transplant. That's where they take progenitor cells that become blood cells from your bloodstream, then give powerful chemotherapy that destroy any blood progenitor cells remaining in your body (to also kill the blood cancer cells). Then they repopulate you with your own stem cells they originally harvested (so you can, you know, make more blood again). So no fetal stem cells involved in this treatment. It's a pretty intense treatment though with a mortality risk. Most commonly people are in the hospital for quite a while for this.
I'm sure many opponents of embryonic stem cell research have benefited from results of that research even if they don't realize though.