Should Doctors Ask Older People If They Have Guns At Home?

vpr.net ^ | July 9, 201

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Coach your kids what to say to the doctor about firearms.

Then insist on accompanying the kids into the exam room. After all, they’re minors. Don’t leave them alone with the medical staff.

[Billthedrill]

I had a different problem with my last Doc. He wanted to know about what reloading gear I had and where he could get some.

[DustyMoment]

As soon as you refuse to answer him the NSA and everyone else will have you on a list to watch.

I'm already on many of their "lists to watch". I'm not losing any sleep over it.

[2nd amendment mama]

Excuse me - I never threatened or said anything bad about doctors! However, unless they are at the range and prove to me that they have more knowledge than me about how to handle a firearm then they can keep their mouths shut about my firearm use/ownership!

Do you think they’d take medical advice from me? NO. Nor should they. My brain is quite “tuned in” and I’m not showing off at all. Now go back and sit in the corner sucking your thumb like a good subject.

[Mamzelle]

They don't want to ask you these nosy questions. They are coerced into it and it's not a point I seem to be able to make. Not now, and not ever ive trued on a doxen threads You don't have to read very far to find hostile responses here that people suggest you make to the physician.

If people won't believe that the doctor can't choose to not ask the question, and you insist that this us something the dic wants to do and it p-sses you off--don't go to the dic, period. And if anyone wants to be belligerent, guess what? it'll get charted and be part of your permanent record

So take my advice. The doctor cannot compel an answer. Just refuse to snswer

[Mamzelle]

Doc not dic. I get so tired if this spellcheck.

[Mamzelle]

It is a crime if you’re lying to get narcotics. I don’t know that it’s a crime in any other capacity nor is it likely to be. Lying about guns is probably safe, and the doc has satisfied his dictators upstairs by asking the question.

[Hoffer Rand]

Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law at Florida State University

Just what we need, academics in the medical and legal field spouting off about how the real world should be run. You know what they say; the longer the name of an organization, the more likely it is to want to take rights and invade privacy.

[Hoffer Rand]

Ever read Wizard's First Rule? Interesting sci fi/fantasy book, but the thing that stuck out to me was what rule is. "People are stupid. They will believe what they want to believe or what they are afraid might be true." The wizard in the book says magic is so powerful, because people are afraid, as if you were somehow more dead having been killed by magic than if you had been killed by some other means. Same thing goes for the gun control nuts. They believe you are somehow more dead having been killed by a gun (or an SUV) than if you had been killed by other means. And the wizard's first rule applies here, too. People are stupid.

[LibLieSlayer]

You just know that it is coming. I am seeing doctors opening private clinics and not taking any government funds. It may bring back free market health care... the kind that we pay for... like when I was younger. They may end up getting what they never wanted... and what they really want is single payer and the start of full blown communism.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

I know that I am. I love this republic and I am a Christian that believes in limited government, only necessary regulation (we need some government), fair trade, and not this garbage of NAFTA... that is something else that they lie about. I believe in States Rights and Constitutional Original Intent. I love women, guns, fast cars, boats and high tech electronics... and I love FREE REPUBLIC. Heck... they have me a reserved spot in the first NSA internment camp!

LLS

[hal ogen]

Doctors should practice medicine. Period.