As a physician, I cannot access the long-gun registry. I also cannot disclose any confidential information between me and a patient. If a patient is just contemplating suicide, I cannot refer him to the police and have them go to his house.
I could be held accountable and my licence could be at stake with the College of Physicians and Surgeons if I disclosed any private confidential information. The best I can do--and have done--is ask them to get their friends to take their guns away. But I have also had other patients die from hanging after their firearms were taken away.
We need more--