Health groups call for gun-control measures

[flamin lib]

http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/02/23/aapnews.20150223-2

"The Academy (The American Academy of Pediatrics) is among eight health groups and a legal organization that are calling on lawmakers to enact firearm regulations they say will reduce injuries and deaths.

“Many physicians, having witnessed the effects of firearm-related injury and death on their patients’ lives, strongly believe that firearm-related injury and death is a major public health problem,” the groups said in a paper, Firearm-Related Injury and Death in the United States: A Call to Action from 8 Health Professional Organizations and the American Bar Association.

“This was not meant to be anti-gun or pro-gun,” he said. “It was meant to deal with it as a public health issue to try to amass the data so we could make better and more informed decisions.”

The groups are making the following recommendations:

Support background checks for all firearm purchases, including those through gun dealers, gun shows and private individuals.

Oppose physician “gag laws” that forbid physicians from discussing a patient’s gun ownership.

Oppose the sale or ownership of “assault weapons” and large capacity magazines for private citizens.

Advocate research into the causes and consequences of firearm violence and unintentional injuries so that evidence-based policies may be developed.

Support improved access to mental health care, with caution against broadly prohibiting all persons with any mental or substance use disorder from purchasing firearms.

Oppose blanket reporting laws that require physicians to report patients with mental or substance use disorders, as these laws may stigmatize the patients and inhibit them from seeking treatment."

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The NRA/ILA shut down medical research into gun violence some time ago. Even though President Obama asked the various agencies to begin researching gun violence the funding for such research is very difficult to find. See, the Second Amendment is much more important then the First Amendment. Because . . . gunz an liburty an freedumb.

Support a gun control group of your choice any way you can. Cash, phone bank, write LTTEs, call and email your congress critter. Be heard. It works.

[billh58]

1. According to the NRA and its supporters,

everything is fine, no research into gun violence is necessary, and the USA is a role model to the rest of the world when it comes to "the right to keep and bear arms."

Professor Garen Wintemute

"But take Sandy Hook, Oak Creek, Aurora, Columbine, Virginia Tech, all of them together come to ninety-one dead. It’s awful. But we lose, on average, eighty-eight people every day to firearm violence in the United States, and we have more than 200 people every day injured seriously enough to go to the emergency department."

Nothing to see here folks, the NRA/ILA and ALEC (Koch Brothers) have everything under control, so just ignore the man behind the curtain.

[jimmy the one]

2. medical research & funding woes

Health groups call for gun-control measures ... "The Academy (The American Academy of Pediatrics) is among eight health groups and a legal organization that are calling on lawmakers to enact firearm regulations they say will reduce injuries and deaths.

Health Profession vs NRA gun lobbynuts, 21st century take II

“Many physicians, having witnessed the effects of firearm-related injury and death on their patients’ lives, strongly believe that firearm-related injury and death is a major public health problem,” .. Firearm-Related Injury and Death in the United States: A Call to Action from 8 Health Professional Organizations and the American Bar Association. (ABA still interprets 2ndA as a militia based rkba, afaik, excepting perhaps in court where they could be endplayed by heller).

I only list some, relevance: The groups are making the following recommendations
Oppose physician “gag laws” that forbid physicians from discussing a patient’s gun ownership.
Advocate research into the causes and consequences of firearm violence and unintentional injuries so that evidence-based policies...
Support improved access to mental health care, with caution against broadly prohibiting all persons with any mental or substance use disorder from purchasing firearms.
Oppose blanket reporting laws that require physicians to report patients with mental or substance use disorders, as these laws may stigmatize the patients and inhibit them from seeking treatment."

flaming lib: The NRA/ILA shut down medical research into gun violence some time ago. Even though President Obama asked the various agencies to begin researching gun violence the funding for such research is very difficult to find

You might be right, likely are; here are some med related executive Obama actions (emboldened) from 2014, that tie in with the OP. I wonder if it's currently more difficult to get federal funding, than donations to the brady campaign, EGS, or JAMA:

Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2 Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-control/2013/01/16/obamas-23-executive-actions-guns