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We applaud The Times for its rare action of publishing a front-page editorial, stressing the importance of addressing the never-ending, tragic loss of life related to firearms violence (“The Gun Epidemic,” Dec. 5).
Allowing unrestricted access to firearms without universal background checks, including military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, is unconscionable for a civilized society that prides itself on valuing life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Additionally, laws that prevent medical professionals from speaking with their patients about firearms constitute inappropriate interference in the patient-clinician relationship.
Our organizations, the American College of Physicians and the American Bar Association, joined with seven other major national medical and public health professional organizations to publish a “call to action” about firearms violence earlier this year in Annals of Internal Medicine.
We advocated adoption of a number of reasonable and sensible gun control regulations that are consistent with the Second Amendment and do not go against any Supreme Court decisions. The recommendations in that paper have been endorsed by 52 national and other major organizations that recognize how critical it is to address this major public health problem.
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