US doctors react to criticism from National Rifle Association

Doctors across the United States reacted sharply when a tweet from the National Rifle Association suggested that they should “stay in their lane” rather than join the debate on gun control. The tweet, which came in response to a position paper from the American College of Physicians, was written just hours before a gunman killed 12 people at the Borderline Bar in Los Angeles.

The American College of Physicians’ paper was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.1 The NRA first reacted with an editorial on its website, then with a tweet linking to that editorial. The tweet …