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he VA Sees Guns as a Health Care Issue, and Here’s What VA Officials are Doing About It
theblaze.com ^ | 1/8/2014 | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 01/08/2015 6:32:21 AM PST by rktman

According to a letter received by a veteran that was obtained by TheBlaze, the VA sees the use of gun locks as a health care issue, and wants veterans to use them if they own a gun.

“As your partner in health care, we are committed to keeping you and your family safe,” the letter said. “Gun locks have been shown to greatly reduce death and injury caused by firearms in the home. We are therefore offering you the opportunity to obtain up to four free gun locks.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol; veterans
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And if you decline the generous offer by the VA? If you can, NEVER tell any medical office your feeling a little down. Even if you favorite pet just died and you're bummed out, keep it out of the doctors office. Insidious, creeping control.
1 posted on 01/08/2015 6:32:21 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

I see Islam as a growing Heath Issue.


2 posted on 01/08/2015 6:33:08 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: rktman

So a Constitutional Right is a health care issue?
Hey VA, kiss my white phosphorescent butt!


3 posted on 01/08/2015 6:35:09 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: rktman

I haven’t used a gun lock since that boating accident I had many years ago while transporting all my guns to the other side of the Hudson river.


4 posted on 01/08/2015 6:35:34 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: rktman

Send me three dozen.


5 posted on 01/08/2015 6:36:16 AM PST by Iron Munro (Obama, Holder, Sharpton, and de Blasio - leading the Democrats "War On Cops")
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To: rktman

Which study, pray tell, has shown that gun locks greatly reduce shootings? (Anyone?)


6 posted on 01/08/2015 6:37:06 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: rktman

When the burglar breaks in to your house, just tell him to please wait while you UNLOCK your gun.


7 posted on 01/08/2015 6:38:23 AM PST by CMailBag
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To: coloradan

The one in which injuries to criminals were vastly reduced.


8 posted on 01/08/2015 6:38:49 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Paladin2

Post of the day


9 posted on 01/08/2015 6:39:20 AM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: rktman

Connecting the dots - Obamacare will be used for gun confiscation.


10 posted on 01/08/2015 6:41:40 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: headstamp 2

Anywhere near Athens? We could get a metal detector and try to recover them if you like. :>}


11 posted on 01/08/2015 6:41:50 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: rktman

The VETERANS Administration has a problem with guns.

I see......


12 posted on 01/08/2015 6:43:18 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Remember also that because of a recent executive order, 35 government agencies now have unlimited, unrestricted access to your medical records.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/feds-plan-35-agencies-help-collect-share-use-electronic-health-info_821037.html

(list of agencies on page includes the VA, which will share veterans medical records with very leftist-agenda oriented federal agencies. So bottom line, the only way to have privacy is not to give that information to your doctor, or any other information in public that could be assembled to discover things about you the government should not know.)


13 posted on 01/08/2015 6:43:25 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: coloradan

LOL! “They” make those claims all the time and we are supposed to accept the plain old vanilla statement as fact and not question it. “Back in line peon. We’ll tell you what to believe and when to believe it.”


14 posted on 01/08/2015 6:44:25 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Pass, also this smells like a sneaky way to root up guns that don't have a paper trail, etc...

"Ooh, I suppose I really should put one of those on that Schmeisser I took off that kraut and stuck in my duffle back in 1944!" Riiiiight.

15 posted on 01/08/2015 6:45:02 AM PST by W. (Bureaucracy kills enterprise, and communism doesen't work. Any OTHER bright ideas, 0bama?)
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To: rktman

Homosexuality is more dangerous to health, if health really was the concern. But it’s not. Guns are not a health issue. It’s a control issue.


16 posted on 01/08/2015 6:45:06 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: rktman

Gun locks mean the home invasion guys win because I can’t get a weapon out in time. Same for a safe (tho they are good for collectors).

Someone’s always here and our “Security System” is always armed........


17 posted on 01/08/2015 6:45:24 AM PST by Arlis
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To: rktman

They may send you a gun lock, but your name has been put on a list that will be added to the NCIS one day. That designation will be a medical disqualifier for buying a new gun.


18 posted on 01/08/2015 6:45:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Paladin2

If you apply for free firearm locks, you are telling the Obummer Regime you have firearms. Besides, as a waste of VA funds, you would be depriving someone of needed VA services.


19 posted on 01/08/2015 6:46:36 AM PST by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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20 posted on 01/08/2015 6:47:14 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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