What to advise children about gun questions from physicians or at schools is not an easy thing. It’s not good to teach them to lie, and if they say it’s none of your business, they are being disrespectful towards adults.
Perhaps the best thing for a child to say is, “That’s none of my business.”
This response is neither lying nor disrespectful. It is, in fact, entirely true, because it is not the children’s business to be caught between their parents and government busybodies.
It it also a lesson to the questioners, because it’s none of their business, either.
As my children age in the this time of jerks among us I teach my kids the correct amount of disrespect to give to an adult that garnishes it. Respect is earned, not awarded.
Except, it really is none of the doc's business. However, it is the child's business. If there are guns in the home, the child should be taught to respect them.
A child should not be taught to respect all adults in every situation. This is exactly a situation where an example should be set that sometimes an adult will ask a child a question that is over the line and the child is under no obligation to answer. My kids are long grown, but I know a couple of my grandchildren have been taught to answer, "whether or not my parents are exercising their second amendment right is not your business."