An Opinion in Gun Violence and its Impact on Health Care

Rami Batarseh

Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA

Dr. Rami Batarseh, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA.

Keywords: Gun Violence; Health Care

Abstract

Gun Violence is the 12^th leading cause of premature death in the US, tallying up to 38000 deaths and 75000 injured annually. The CDC was bereft of performing any research on gun safety since 1996 because the NRA lobbied Congress to pass the Dickey amendment which removed any funding. During the passage of Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Congress included a provision to restricting the ability of doctors to gather data on patients’ gun use, which has left public safety crippled. While we can track fatality analysis closely from accidents et al. we are unable to account with mathematical certainty how many households have guns.

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