The American Medical Association, which has long since called gun violence a “public health crisis,” has issued a series of guidelines that it hopes lawmakers will have the courage to adopt, Yahoo News is reporting.
It’s been four months since the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida left 17 people dead. In those four months, gun control has entered the national conversation, spurred on in part by Parkland students David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez, among others, who have become national advocates for gun control. Nevertheless, for all of the talk about gun control, no meaningful action has been taken in Washington, and AMA doctor-members are frustrated, to put it mildly.
Association president Dr. David Barbe, concluding his one-year term at the AMA’s annual meeting, expressed that frustration.
“It has been frustrating that we have seen so little action from either state or federal legislators.”
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