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Eric S. H. Ching
Mountain View, Calif

JAMA. 1992;268(21):3069-3070.

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To the Editor.

—The public health paradigm underlying your firearms control scheme in your Editorial¹ of June 10, 1992, is inconsistently and incompletely applied, and the automobile registration and licensing model is inappropriate to the regulation of firearms.

The inconsistency becomes obvious if we apply similar criteria to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), Dr Koop's earlier célèbre. Would you require AIDS carriers to be registered? To demonstrate knowledge about safe sex? To have their sexual practices monitored? To forfeit their right to have sex if they violate these conditions? I would hope not. Then why do you consider such restrictions acceptable for firearms owners?

Your analysis is woefully incomplete in that it failed to consider the benefits conferred by private firearms. For example, a highly publicized firearms training program for more than 2000 women in Orlando, Fla, caused the incidence of rape to drop 89% in 1 year without . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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