There is such a thing as the right of healthcare peddlers to talk about gun safety? What about my right to tell them to shut their traps? Even on such issues as they may have limited expertise I tell them to go sick an egg. Because it’s not their business to tell me how to be healthy but to patch me up to continue whatever life I decide to live.
They don’t tell me what to think at the bookstore, or how to dress at the clothing store. They just offer whatever services for which I’m willing to pay. The ones who’d most benefit from advice on his to live healthily according to the arbitrary fads of health mechanics, the great unwashed, are too stupid or uninterested to listen, anyway. Meanwhile I have to listen to attempted conscientiousness from otherwise intelligent people who’d be about as well off following common sense.
I don’t ask my patients about firearms, unless we are discussing the relative attributes of one over another.
However, if there were to be pressure put on MD’s to discuss such topics (by the Feds), I would counsel a patient to ask, “Doctor, what are your qualifications to discuss firearm safety?”
If the doctor had no qualifications, the patient could rightly refuse to discuss the subject without causing a scene.
I think the NRA should be pro-active and educate doctors in gun safety.