The doctors don't need to know if you have a gun or not;the purpose is to stigmatize gun ownership and YOUR ANSWER BECOMES PART OF YOUR MEDICAL RECORD which is accessible to insurance companies,and government agencies.
The doctors are assisting in a backdoor gun registration scheme.
In Indiana,a law enforcement person is forbidden from establishing and maintaing even a private list of gun owners,and for good reasons.
ALL forms of gun ownership lists have disarming the private citizen as the ultimate goal.
I support the NRA on this proposed law.
For the record, I’ve never asked if a patient is a gun owner. It doesn’t matter in my line of work. But it certainly may be relevant for a pediatrician to instruct parents about proper securing of firearms, seeing as accidental deaths are a leading cause of death for children and teens. Do you think the physicians are part of some scam to get a list of gun owners, or are they simply trying to educate the parents of kids who may be around guns? What about free speech? Does anyone see this as an intrusion into the free speech rights of the physician? Maybe it should be illegal for third parties to have access to any records (including medical records) which contain information about gun ownership. That would make a lot more sense than sending a physician to jail for a year for simply asking a question and trying to potentially educate parents about the safe use and storage of firearms.