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I agree that ALL rights are important, but I take the view that since the 2A’s basic purpose is to resist government tyranny, then without the 2A, ALL the others will soon be in danger and we will have no effective recourse remaining.

I continue to think that having claim to a house is more important than having a burglar alarm in it.

Florida’s problem with doctors grilling patients about guns in the home is basically 1) gun ownership has nothing to do with a patient’s health,

Which falls into "its nice you have an opinion, but its none of your damned business". Allow people to conduct voluntary business transactions as they see fit, and stay out of it. Now that is what liberty is about. As long as people have the right to not frequent a particular doctor and doctor's have a right to ask, or not ask, then there isn't a problem. And by the way, there are plenty of instances when/where a person's environment and the things in them have everything to do with health. There is absolutely no harm, in and of itself, in talking about dangers to children with parents and firearms are a danger. And when you get into mental health, asking the family about the patients availability to cars, knives, firearms, etc. is pretty darned smart. How about you let the doctor and patient work it out?

If the doctor is rude, the patient can leave. Its like magic, aka capitalism.

and 2) many lib organizations equate gun ownership as the equivalent of active promotion of violence in the home which is a fake strawman intended to further restrict gun ownership.

Why yes they do, and I disagree with them, but I don't think curtailing their freedom of speech is the answer.

As I said, you either support individual liberty or you don't.

Well, you’re certainly entitled to your own opinion. Everyone has one, but I find it curious that you’ve twice diluted the importance of the 2A in comparison to others, first as a “hunting license” and now as a “burglar alarm”. Good luck with that approach; the anti’s will take advantage of that on their way to marginalizing the remainder.

You failed to mention another recent Florida law that prohibits towns, cities and counties from using local ordinances to set different rules and restrictions on gun regulations peculiar to their own locales that conflict with state law making it legally hazardous for one to exercise a basic 2A right. That too was part of the anti’s agenda.