[JamesP81]

Do not tell any medical professional you are a gun owner. Ever. If they ask, do you own guns, your answer is no. Always.

[bgill]

Guns are scary. I would never have any around the house!

[HotHunt]

Back a few years ago when this was going on at the VA, I had to go into Urgent Care because go a cold that turned into a bronchitis. I needed some antibiotics to kick it out of my chest.

Well, during triage, the very first question out of the medical technician's mouth was, do you own a gun?

I hesitated because it shocked me and I wasn't sure where he was headed with it. I was in there for medial treatment and an Rx and wasn't expecting the question.

But after a few moments of an uncomfortable pause on my part, I answered in the negative.

I simply said, "That's none of your damn business."

He said fine, that they were required to ask everyone who presented for treatment, the same question. And that was the end of it.

I know they have dropped the policy since then because I have never been asked the gun ownership question again despite multiple visits to the VA.

Red-flagging veterans about their gun ownership apparently didn't go over very well with the veterans themselves.

[DugwayDuke]

JamesP81 wrote: “Do not tell any medical professional you are a gun owner. Ever. If they ask, do you own guns, your answer is no. Always.”

My doctor is a hunter and keeps gun magazines in his waiting room.