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Should Your Doctor Ask If You Own Guns?
Time mag ^ | May 16, 2016 | Alice Park

Posted on 05/17/2016 10:01:38 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo

Doctors routinely ask if you smoke, and counsel you to wear your seat belt when you’re in a car. Technically, either behavior isn’t any of their business, but they do fall under the umbrella of preventive care.

Now Dr. Garen Wintemute, director of the violence prevention research program at the University of California Davis, and his colleagues want to add firearms to the office visit for similar reasons.

First, he says that no federal or state laws prevent doctors from asking their patients about whether they have guns in the home.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; doctors; gunownership; guns; obamacare; secondamendment
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To: Mr. Mojo

After he says “Nice Sig. 229?”


61 posted on 05/18/2016 12:52:26 AM PDT by glock rocks (Please support Free Republic)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Only if he plans to invite me to go shooting with him.


62 posted on 05/18/2016 2:16:06 AM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Seat belt - it happens in Minnesota, along with other questions. It got so bad up there, I gave routine PC answers that would put Pajama Boy to shame.


63 posted on 05/18/2016 2:20:36 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Bobalu

>>Sometimes safety trumps the 2nd....<<

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Benjamin Franklin

It’s a slippery road.


64 posted on 05/18/2016 2:30:44 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

“Well if they ever do ask, ask why it is relevant when 225,000 us citizens die by doctors each year while only 12,500 die by firearms. That’s like 20 to 1”

excellent point!!!!! putting that one in the memory bank in case it’s needed. Thank you


65 posted on 05/18/2016 2:48:46 AM PDT by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Mr. Mojo
As Tom Gresham has often said: "It is not a sin to lie to someone who is not entitled to the truth."

If your doctor asks if you own guns, just take Nancy Reagan's advice:

The more tin foil conspiracy prone among us will also note that all doctor's medical records are now computerized and accessible by the federal government, so the answer to this question becomes part of your permanent medical record for all to see.

66 posted on 05/18/2016 3:27:14 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Nothing says you have to tell the doctor the truth.


67 posted on 05/18/2016 3:34:18 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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To: Mr. Mojo

One of my doctors and I discuss guns almost every time I go. He tells me what his latest is and I make the appropriately impressed noises. I don’t think this is what the article was talking about though.


68 posted on 05/18/2016 3:39:30 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Think that’s intrusive and none of their business? My kids’ pediatrician asks that. Apparently it’s part of their questioning now so it’s not as if I could just take them to another one. When I take them I troll with all sorts of weapon names (some made up) so they have no idea if any of it is true or not.


69 posted on 05/18/2016 3:43:34 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: mikey_hates_everything
When I take them I troll with all sorts of weapon names (some made up) so they have no idea if any of it is true or not.

I tell them "I don't talk about that. I don't want to spoil the surprise."

70 posted on 05/18/2016 3:46:59 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: rockinqsranch

>>I was nice, and didn’t tell the VA nurse interviewer it was none of his business. I just said NO!

Best answer. Forget about all the silly counter questions and talk of boating accidents. Just lie and say NO. That’s how you survive in a police state. Watch the ghetto rats to learn skills that we will need to survive. If they get caught standing over a dead body with a gun in their hand and blood spatter on their face, they just automatically start with, “I don’t know what happened. I didn’t do anything. This isn’t my gun and I don’t know how it got in my hand.”

Being a good cooperative citizen in an evil, corrupt state is stupid and dangerous.


71 posted on 05/18/2016 3:47:09 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: ThisLittleLightofMine
"they also ask what race do you consider yourself"

I check "other" or write in "human" when I get a chance.

72 posted on 05/18/2016 3:57:52 AM PDT by bruoz
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To: Mr. Mojo

Guns have nothing to do with medicine, so it’s none of his business.


73 posted on 05/18/2016 4:27:18 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Well doctor, do you enjoy living?


74 posted on 05/18/2016 4:33:30 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: Mr. Mojo

If a doctor ever asks me if I own a gun, I will leave his office without saying a word. So shoukd you.


75 posted on 05/18/2016 4:37:45 AM PDT by stockpirate (Flush Limbaigh a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Should Americans ask if Obama was born in America


76 posted on 05/18/2016 4:39:21 AM PDT by stockpirate (Flush Limbaigh a low information talk show host concerning Ted sCruz and Marco foamboy Rubio.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

When we moved to TN I 2010, the form we filled out for our new doctor asked about guns in the house. We left it blank. (I expected better from TN.)


77 posted on 05/18/2016 4:39:24 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Trump loves America and will protect the people who live here first, last and always. - Coulter)
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To: Mr. Mojo; Fred Nerks

Should Your Doctor Ask If You Own Guns?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Nope.

Unless you want to pay higher medical insurance and have huge deductibles.

The status of one’s 2nd amendment rights is no business of the doctors or the medical insurance companies.

If my doctor asked me, I would simply change doctors.


78 posted on 05/18/2016 4:39:55 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Only if he is looking for a shooting partner.


79 posted on 05/18/2016 4:41:07 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Smoking, sure. Diet and exercise, sure. But I’ve never heard of a doc advising anyone to wear a seat belt, so I call BS on that.

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My neurologist’s nurse asked me the seat belt question but not about guns.


80 posted on 05/18/2016 4:47:33 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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