Congratulations on your cogent and reasonable defence of public health as it pertains to the issue of gun control in Canada.1 Surely reasonable people will agree that to argue otherwise or — worse — to act otherwise would endanger the life of every citizen across this land.
As an emergency physician who did his specialty training in the United States (Los Angeles) and who, over the course of 15 years in that country, was chief of emergency medical services for 2 major cities (Los Angeles and Pittsburgh), I can readily attest to the devastating effects of unfettered gun ownership.
Surely our country, with its contrasting values and social forces, will not go the way of the society south of the border, where the individual's right to life and health is jeopardized by unrestricted gun ownership.
Ronald D. Stewart Dalhousie University Halifax, NS
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