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"What I'm struggling with is, is this the new social norm? This is what we're going to have to live with if we have more personal access to firearms," said Hargarten, emergency medicine chief at Froedtert Hospital and director of the Injury Research Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. "We have a public health issue to discuss. Do we wait for the next outbreak or is there something we can do to prevent it?"
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http://www.ksl.com/?sid=21659490&nid...cid=featured-4
The article suggests that imposing further restrictions on who may possess a firearm may be a good thing; a ban on "assault weapons" and multiple magazines; modification of firearms to make them 'safer'; and more.
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Gun ownership – a precursor to gun violence – can spread "much like an infectious disease circulates," said Daniel Webster, a health policy expert and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore.
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We've had a number of threads regarding medical professionals inquiring into firearm ownership by patients. It seems likely that this is something that will not go away and may well become more prevalent in the future. This article clearly suggests to me the possibility of health records being used to deny firearms ownership, especially as more and more medical offices convert fully to computerized record-keeping and make it easier for government agencies to access records of specific patients.