{"id":70274,"date":"2017-02-15T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T15:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=70274"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T18:28:47","slug":"mass-attorney-general-urges-doctors-to-talk-gun-safety-with-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/mass-attorney-general-urges-doctors-to-talk-gun-safety-with-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Attorney General Urges Doctors to Talk Gun Safety with Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should doctors counsel patients on gun safety?<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey believes they should. In fact, this week Healey partnered with the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) to develop materials that doctors could use to talk gun safety with their patients.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost medical professionals believe that they can have an important role in preventing gun-related injury and death, and yet screening and counseling about guns remain uncommon,\u201d AG Healey said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the vast majority of gun owners are responsible and deeply committed to gun safety, this remains a public health issue, and conversations between patients and health care providers are critically important to preventing gun-related injury and death,\u201d said Healey.<\/p>\n

The materials consist of brochures and a voluntary online training program. Topics covered in the online program include gun-licensing laws and reporting obligations, guidance on patient privacy, how to approach certain conversations, and clinical scenarios to consider, according to the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Topics covered in the pamphlets include making guns less accessible to children and anyone with a behavioral health condition, disposing of an unwanted gun, and advice on what to do when a gun owner is at risk of violence, suicide, or accidental injury, according to the press release.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pleased to partner with the Massachusetts Medical Society in developing these materials for health care providers, who are uniquely situated to engage their patients about keeping themselves and their families safe,\u201d said Healey.<\/p>\n

Massachusetts Medical Society President James S. Gessner, M.D. also praised the initiative.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun violence is a major public health threat and physicians can play a key role in curbing the violence by educating patients about the risks of gun ownership and encouraging our colleagues to talk to their patients,\u201d said Gressner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored to work with the Attorney General and law enforcement officials in efforts to make gun ownership safer and reduce deaths and injuries attributable to guns,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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At first blush, this seems like a nice idea. Why not have medical professionals talk gun safety with their patients?<\/p>\n

But that presupposes that doctors know more about guns and gun safety than their law-abiding and responsible patients who own them, regularly shoot them, hunt with them and\/or carry them for self-defense. Put another way, how is a non-gun owner \u2014 doctor or no doctor \u2014 going to tell me something about gun safety or storage that I don\u2019t already know or haven\u2019t thought deeply about?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like saying that I would be perfectly suited to counsel my proctologist on lifestyle choices and treatments to alleviate hemorrhoids after reading a pamphlet and watching an educational video. I may have a cursory understanding of the matter after being exposed to the educational material, but let\u2019s not forget who the expert is, who has years of experience in that domain, who truly knows the ins and outs of the subject.<\/p>\n

As Healey herself freely admits, the \u201cvast majority of gun owners are responsible and deeply committed to gun safety.\u201d Right. We are. So, we don\u2019t need to be \u201cscreened\u201d for firearms (is that like a cancer screening or something?) nor do we need to be educated on the \u201crisks of gun ownership.\u201d We\u2019re keenly aware of what it means for ourselves and our families to keep loaded firearms in the home and on our persons.<\/p>\n

By virtue of this fact and by Healey\u2019s own admission, it appears that the target of this joint initiative is the small fraction of individuals with guns who are too stupid, too lazy or too mentally unstable to realize that firearms are lethal weapons and should be treated accordingly.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s think about who really makes up this small fraction of individuals. We are, of course, talking about minors, felons, drug addicts, mental defectives, those with chronic suicidal ideations, you know, all the people who cannot lawfully possess firearms in the first place. Yes, those are the people who are responsible for the overwhelming number of shootings, gun deaths, and gun suicides.<\/p>\n

The question that Healey needs to ask herself is whether this effort will actually reach those people (How frequently do criminals and drug dealers visit the doctor\u2019s office?) Moreover, will it have any effect on their behavior (How receptive are criminals and drug dealers to a physician’s advice)?<\/p>\n

My take is that, like most nanny-state initiatives, this is nothing more than a feel-good program that may sound good to some on paper but will have no real world impact. What it will do, however, is allow Healey to add to her growing list of misguided actions ostensibly designed to reduce gun-related violence. There\u2019s no doubt that she has political ambitions that reach beyond the office of attorney general. And over the past year or so, she\u2019s been padding her resume by targeting law-abiding gun owners:<\/p>\n

Massachusetts AG Healey Hands Out Fine to Dealer Selling Glocks<\/a><\/p>\n

Judge OKs Healey \u2018Consumer Safety\u2019 Investigation of Glock<\/a><\/p>\n

State Attorney General Puts End to Sale of Black Rifles in Massachusetts<\/a><\/p>\n

NRA Sues Massachusetts Over \u2018Assault Weapon\u2019 Ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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