Promoting firearm safety and injury prevention research;
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ACEP Now: Vol 35 – No 08 – August 2016- Creating a confidential national firearm injury research registry while encouraging states to establish a uniform approach to tracking;
- Recording firearm-related injuries;
- Promoting access to effective, affordable, and sustainable mental health services;
- Protecting the duty of physicians and encouraging health care provider discussions with patients on firearm safety;
- Promoting the development of technology that increases firearm safety;
- Supporting universal background checks for firearm transactions;
- Requiring the enforcement of existing laws and supporting new legislation that prevents high-risk and prohibited individuals from obtaining firearms by any means; and
- Restricting the sale and ownership of weapons, munitions, and large-capacity magazines that are designed for military or law enforcement use.
I take your comments very seriously. You would not know that my own family has been affected by gun violence. One of my nieces, who lives in Springfield, Oregon, was in her high school cafeteria when she was shot by a student gunman in 1998. She survived, but she still carries the bullet in her pelvis as well as the post-traumatic effects of that experience; her best friend was shot in the head and died.
I understand that you are president of the new organization, Americans Against Gun Violence. I wish you well in your efforts. ACEP has stood publically against gun violence. Our policy promotes some of the measures that you support. We will continue to advocate for stronger laws to protect the public and decrease the penetrating trauma that we unfortunately see so often in our emergency departments.
Jay Kaplan, MD, FACEP, is president of ACEP.
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2 Responses to “Opinion: ACEP Now Reader Responds to Statement on Orlando Mass Shooting, and ACEP President Dr. Jay Kaplan Replies”
August 23, 2016
Gene GarberSo this guy walks in an ER……says he’s a consultant. We all assume a highly paid chaturbate with a lot of self-imposed thought-leading medical consultantry. The big advice he gave us. Stop chewing gum and get rid of your ugly green scrubs….or at least iron them. Needless to say, by following those two actions, our ER is now the crown jewel of our hospital. All the sub-specialists brown-nose our attendings. The CEO/President mentions us in every newsletter and hands out Kudos awards to all of us for our service and apparel. The consultant was none other than Jay Kaplan.
October 22, 2016
Timothy Wheeler, MDWell, since Dr. Kaplan has gone so far as to meet with House minority leaders whose gun control creds are well-known, and since Dr. Durston is using this space to recruit doctors to his gun prohibition group, perhaps I should inform readers that there is an alternative to joining the public health gun prohibition movement.
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership as a nationwide group of physicians, medical students, scientists, and other health professionals who support responsible gun ownership. We are champions, not enemies, of the civil right of gun ownership. We invite all physicians to join us in our effort to counter the public health assault on gun owners.
Timothy Wheeler, MD
Director
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
A Project of the Second Amendment Foundation