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Doctors of America, you are free to counsel patients about guns

Let's bury the gun lobby myth that US medical professionals aren't allowed to discuss firearms risks with those they treat, say Marian Betz and Megan Ranney

By Marian Betz and Megan Ranney

16 May 2016

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In 2014, . What can be done to improve this terrible record?

This is a politically charged and divisive question in a nation where , and resistance to change is considerable.

Critics of gun control object to government involvement in the ownership, storage or use of firearms as they see it as infringing the Second Amendment to the US constitution, which has been interpreted as enshrining an individual’s right to own a gun.

And 20 years ago, federal funding for research into gun…

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