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Two Republican state representatives have accused the Arizona Department of Health Services of coming after the Second Amendment rights of parents after the agency concluded in its annual Child Fatality Review Team report that there would be fewer children killed by guns in Arizona if there were fewer firearms in homes.
“We are appalled that the (Child Fatality Review Team) speaking on behalf of the Arizona Department of Health Services, is actually advocating for stripping Arizonans of their Second Amendment rights in their own homes,” Reps. Quang Nguyen and Selina Bliss wrote in a letter to Jennie Cunico, head of Arizona DHS, on Monday.
But the report , released in November, doesn’t actually advocate for that.
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Its firearm death prevention recommendations include “removing firearms from households with children, proper storage of all firearms, implementing initiatives aimed at limiting access to firearms,” as well as other prevention strategies. But the review team does not advocate for any policy that would see the government try to forcibly take guns away from anyone.