Docs to NRA: Gun violence is in our lane [Opinion]
“Good research can make a difference. Medical research solved AIDS but physicians never took away sex. Medical research and public health interventions have dramatically reduced deaths and injury from car crashes but physicians never took away cars. Medical research can solve gun violence and firearm injury and physicians will not take away all guns.”
Writing in the Houston Chronicle, Drs. Dark, Fischer and Ranney articulate how addressing the epidemic of gun violence in America is the purview of healthcare providers. Gun violence is an epidemic, and solving epidemics is what the healthcare community does best.