[goodnesswins]

I'm thinking....it's time...to start answering the question THIS way....."Of course I have a gun. I'm a responsible parent who wants to protect my family from harm. Don't YOU? Do you think the police will be there when someone breaks in? I consider anyone who does not keep a gun to be irresponsible and a bad parent." Then, I'd walk out.

[grey_whiskers]

That's the right approach -- it bears a close analogy to Teh One's arrogant "jobs created or saved" -- which means, in reality, "jobs lost or prevented."

Bearing in mind the willingness of Stalinists and their enablers like Bellesiles to lie through their foul teeth when collecting data -- where are the statistics on lives saved and robberies / rapes / murders/ abductions PREVENTED by having a gun in the house, as compared to the anecdotal "guns are EEEVIL because they make my metrosexual side as a DOCTOR feel 'all isshy' "...?

Second, they demonstrate that such questions are a direct threat to your constitutional rights(*), as they will doubtless seek to deny you care or report you to "the authorities" based on you and your family being classified as "at risk"^TM -- wouldn't there be grounds for a swell little lawsuit based on "deprivation of rights under color of law" following these questions.

(*) Recall that the fictitious "right to privacy" is a penumbra from the 5th amendment, related to an elective medical "procedure" (abortion) -- so wouldn't a similar penumbra emanate from an-explicitly, verbatim amendment not invented by a bunch of perverts and scum?

Cheers!