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<blockquote data-quote="Old Fart" data-source="post: 2511409" data-attributes="member: 4899"><p>AAP guidelines urge pediatricians to counsel parents during checkups about the dangers of allowing kids to have access to guns. About half of all AAP pediatricians say they recommend the removal of handguns from the home, according to a national survey of AAP members. </p><p></p><p></p><p>There’s also the issue of funding for federal research-of which there has been almost none. Even after President Obama lifted the long freeze on gun research-lobbied for and won by the NRA in 1996-Congress still has yet to appropriate the promised $10 million in funds promised to the CDC for gun research, an amount that even if released would be too little for quality research, according to pediatricians I spoke with. But the amount isn’t likely to matter. As a researcher who spend over $1 million funding his own work, put it “hell will freeze over before this Congress gives them [the CDC] money.” Moreover, the long moratorium has resulted in a paucity of qualified experts to research firearm injuries. </p><p></p><p> Despite the challenges, or motivated by them, pediatricians say they’ll continue to push for more research and a change in policy that will make children safer. As for the opposition, doctors insist the tide is turning. </p><p></p><p></p><p>“The NRA’s influence has peaked. Surveys of NRA members show that they’re a little tired of their leadership,” pediatrician and AAP meeting presenter Dr. Sege says. “And in general, pediatricians are never really that far ahead of American families. There are 60,000 of us and we see almost every American child almost every year. If the pediatricians are strong on this issue, it’s hard for me to believe that there will be such a discrepancy over what we believe and what the families we care for believe.”</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-fight-nra-over-gun-safety-094500038--politics.html" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-fight-nra-over-gun-safety-094500038--politics.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Fart, post: 2511409, member: 4899"] AAP guidelines urge pediatricians to counsel parents during checkups about the dangers of allowing kids to have access to guns. About half of all AAP pediatricians say they recommend the removal of handguns from the home, according to a national survey of AAP members. There’s also the issue of funding for federal research-of which there has been almost none. Even after President Obama lifted the long freeze on gun research-lobbied for and won by the NRA in 1996-Congress still has yet to appropriate the promised $10 million in funds promised to the CDC for gun research, an amount that even if released would be too little for quality research, according to pediatricians I spoke with. But the amount isn’t likely to matter. As a researcher who spend over $1 million funding his own work, put it “hell will freeze over before this Congress gives them [the CDC] money.” Moreover, the long moratorium has resulted in a paucity of qualified experts to research firearm injuries. Despite the challenges, or motivated by them, pediatricians say they’ll continue to push for more research and a change in policy that will make children safer. As for the opposition, doctors insist the tide is turning. “The NRA’s influence has peaked. Surveys of NRA members show that they’re a little tired of their leadership,” pediatrician and AAP meeting presenter Dr. Sege says. “And in general, pediatricians are never really that far ahead of American families. There are 60,000 of us and we see almost every American child almost every year. If the pediatricians are strong on this issue, it’s hard for me to believe that there will be such a discrepancy over what we believe and what the families we care for believe.” [url]http://news.yahoo.com/doctors-fight-nra-over-gun-safety-094500038--politics.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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