--- title: California's Gun Violence Restraining Order Can Prevent Gun Violence description: The so-called “gun violence restraining order” recently passed in California is a commonsense policy that balances the need for public health and doesn't tread on the rights of gun owners canonical: https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/ author: Khawar Siddique article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-15T14:30:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T10:47:20.828Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Should Treat Gun Violence the Way We Do Cancer and Heart Disease og:description: The so-called “gun violence restraining order” recently passed in California is a commonsense policy that balances the need for public health and doesn't tread on the rights of gun owners og:url: https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ede5d3a3e49157b/698690d31eebf72ff43710aa/1280-rodgers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1280 og:image:height: 720 og:image:alt: Elliot_Rodgers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We Should Treat Gun Violence the Way We Do Cancer and Heart Disease twitter:description: The so-called “gun violence restraining order” recently passed in California is a commonsense policy that balances the need for public health and doesn't tread on the rights of gun owners twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ede5d3a3e49157b/698690d31eebf72ff43710aa/1280-rodgers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # We Should Treat Gun Violence the Way We Do Cancer and Heart Disease > Sponsored content. 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If we do succeed at preserving a life, the victim of gun violence is often left with tragic neurologic deficits such as paralysis, speech problems and cognitive issues. Prevention is the key to improving health outcomes for gun injury victims. We’ve made great strides in diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes by investing in preventative medicine. Our health care system and our citizens have benefited as a result. Gun violence is no different. We need tools to help prevent gun violence and gun suicide. Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that will do just that. The so-called “gun violence restraining order” is a commonsense policy that balances the need for public health and safeguards the rights of gun owners. It answers a basic question we ask ourselves after horrific instances of mass violence or suicide: What could we have done to stop this? AB-1014, now [law](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill%5Fid=201320140AB1014), is modeled on the concept of domestic violence protection orders. Just as a woman can seek protection from her abuser in the courts, the law allows family members and key members of the community, like law enforcement, to petition a judge to provide temporary firearms prohibitions for those deemed to be in crisis. Whether protecting against suicide or mass violence, it will save lives. This problem is not theoretical. There are far too many instances where individuals show signs of impending violence but there are no means to prevent them access to firearms. The recent shooting in Isla Vista is an example where limiting access to guns could have saved lives. Now, with the signing of this law, family members and police officers have legal means to prevent a potentially dangerous person from accessing firearms or ammunition. Gun violence restraining order laws are wholly consistent with the Second Amendment. As a gun owner myself, I know the worst thing that can happen to our rights is to see irresponsible individuals use them to commit crimes. In the case of these new laws, there must be sufficient evidence for a judge to believe that an individual poses a danger to others or oneself before the gun violence restraining order can be issued. In California, the law would penalize anyone who files a petition with false information or uses a gun violence restraining order to harass another person. You can pass this commonsense law in your state, too. Americans for Responsible Solutions, the gun violence prevention group headed by former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, has toolkits for state legislators and advocates telling you exactly how to get it done. Gun violence restraining orders will help keep guns out of the hands of individuals proven to be a threat to the community or themselves while ensuring due process for all involved. As a physician, a citizen and a gun-owner, I encourage the legislatures and governors from across this great nation to act boldly and with common sense. _Khawar Siddique, MD, MBA, is a spine surgeon and neurosurgeon who resides in Los Angeles._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/"},"headline":"We Should Treat Gun Violence the Way We Do Cancer and Heart Disease","datePublished":"2014-10-15T14:30:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T10:47:20.828Z","description":"The so-called “gun violence restraining order” recently passed in California is a commonsense policy that balances the need for public health and doesn't tread on the rights of gun owners","url":"https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/","keywords":["politics","Gun Control","Gun Violence","Law"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ede5d3a3e49157b/698690d31eebf72ff43710aa/1280-rodgers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Khawar Siddique","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/khawar-siddique/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8ede5d3a3e49157b/698690d31eebf72ff43710aa/1280-rodgers.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Elliot_Rodgers","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube / Elliot Rodger","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/politics/","name":"politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3507748/gun-violence-restraining-order/","name":"We Should Treat Gun Violence the Way We Do Cancer and Heart Disease"}}]}] ```