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Re "Gaps in F.B.I. Data Undercut Background Checks for Guns" (front page, Dec. 21):
As psychiatrists, we place great value on the importance on preserving patient confidentiality. Despite this, we suggest the creation of a national database to help prevent individuals who have been involuntarily psychiatrically hospitalized (the constitutional basis for which is dangerousness) from acquiring guns.
Such individuals, at the time of admission, would be entered into the database after being given a written notification. The database would indicate the dates of such admissions, but would include no other clinical information. No sale of a handgun or automatic weapon would be permitted without checking this database.
The database would supplement incomplete databases already existing on this subject. Though we express no opinion as to the rights of individuals to own firearms, we certainly feel that people with a history of dangerousness should be asked to sacrifice a small amount of privacy to alleviate the potential dangers to themselves and others associated with gun ownership.
DANIEL D. ROSEN
STEVEN D. ROTH
White Plains, Dec. 21, 2012
The writers are, respectively, an assistant professor of psychiatry and an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College.
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