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Mon Feb 27 14:05:09 GMT 2006

As a Life Member of the NRA and a Virginia Health Care provider I find this proposed Bill offensive! It in no way restricts the 2nd ammendment but it does restrict the 1st. I ask and suggest to my patients gun vaults and trigger locks and for households with older children firearm safety courses, not removal cause it's not going to happen. ( public schools close in my area for hunting season ! ) I have been blasted by patient's family because I asked  my patient if they "felt safe at home".  I have to live with my own conscious I can not live for everybody elses. Remember who is offended, if it is you, then its your problem, not mine. That goes for religous, polictical, social, racial, etc offenses.

---- docrickfry at aol.com wrote: 
> Sorry JA, but you are off base here.  It is perfectly appropriate for physicians to be actively involved in injury prevention--you would not bat an eye if a pediatrician talked to the parents about being sure the medicine cabinets in a home were secure from their children getting hold of dangerous pills, or if the cupboards in the kitchen with poisonous household cleaners were secured from children, or that their swimming pool in the backyard was secure to prevent neighborhood or their kids from drowning.  Put all those other potential causes of death and morbidity together and you would not come near the mortality and morbidity rate of firearms in the pediatric age group. which is rising at the fastest rate of any other age group.  Thus how can you be consistent or logical at all in also decrying the cautioning against the easy access of firearms to children which are so much deadlier?  You have so clearly crossed the line between politics and medical care, between putting p
>  olitics ahead of patient safety and welfare,  This is not a political issue--it is one of injury prevention and trying to minimize death and injury from the second most common cause of death from injury in this country.  It is appalling.
> ERF
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.A. Terranson <measl at mfn.org>
> To: Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list <trauma-list at trauma.org>
> Sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:46:59 -0600 (CST)
> Subject: Re: Virginia gun bill - 
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> 
> 
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Robert Smith wrote:
> 
> > A policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics "recommends that
> > pediatricians incorporate questions about guns into their patient history
> > taking and urge parents who possess guns to remove them, especially
> > handguns, from the home."
> 
> If the Academy had kept it to history and possibly advice to be careful,
> rather than "urge parents who possess guns to remove them, especially
> handguns, from the home.", this kind of law wouldn't be necessary.  The
> Academy's recommendations are completely out of line here.
> 
> Do they recommend that all knives be removed from the home?
> 
> Glass containers?
> 
> Sporting a political agenda is the fastest way to draw legislative ire.
> Good for Virginia!
> 
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> it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest
> limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of
> the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext
> whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the
> brink of destruction.'
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