Family Physicians and Firearm Safety Counseling

Abstract

strument can be wielded with unfortunate results when it is applied to our discipline. Family physicians then become like the confused individual who is told that a zebra must be a tiger because it has vertical stripes, never mind the other differences! I would argue that if a better classification scheme can be developed that is more true to the patients sitting in the "ordinary family practice waiting room," we would be foolhardy to eschew its use.