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“People want to be able to walk through their neighborhoods and be safe,” Murthy told The Associated Press in a phone interview. “America should be a place where all of us can go to school, go to work, go to the supermarket, go to our house of worship, without having to worry that that’s going to put our life at risk.”
“Family physicians have long understood, and have seen first hand, the devastating impact firearm violence has on our patients and the communities we serve,” the group’s president, Steven Furr, said in a statement. Then-President Donald Trump dismissed Murthy in 2017, but President Joe Biden nominated him again to the position in 2021. among the country’s young people and asked Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to those on cigarette boxes.
Murthy now hopes his advisory on guns will shift the conversation, too, on this issue. He has been encouraged by some developments in Congress, including the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in 2022 that enhanced background checks for firearms. obtained by The Associated Press says that more thorough background checks have stopped roughly 800 sales of firearms to people under age 21.
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