Doctor Comes Up With Dumb Idea To 'Curb Gun Violence'

townhall.com ^ | 10/27/2017 | Beth Baumann

[Ken H]

All the grabbers have to do is pressure insurance companies to ask that question as part of the underwriting process, like they do with smoking. If you lie about it, then the company can cancel your insurance.

Very insidious.

[tumblindice]

Let's ask Hollyweird. They always seem to know what's best for us. The Gunman, starring Sean Pennhead

[alexander_busek]

Then he asked about firearms and I said it was none of his business. He needed a yes or no answer. I lied.

Seriously? You answered this intrusive question (even if dishonestly)?

I would have replied: I'm very sorry that you "need" a "yes-or-no" answer, but I'm not giving you one. Now go pound sand!

One of the most obnoxious, deceitful expressions to worm its way into the English language in the past 30 years: "I need you to..." (= "I hereby demand that you...")

Regards,

[PROCON]

The VA asks me this regularly and I lie blatantly.

Hmm, I'm never asked at my VA clinic. Perhaps your Doc has an agenda?

[PROCON]

Excellent document!

[SkyDancer]

“Doc, see there was this awful tragic boating accident and ....”

[Chewbarkah]

Seems like the perfect time to evoke the tragic boating accident.

[ontap]

Our Dr. ask us this about three years ago and we told him this was not information he needed. He responded that it was a suggestion he received from the AMA and he also did not see the relevance!!

[rktman]

A true pic of a mentally unstable individual with access to firearms?

[Sooth2222]

"Yet nationwide in 2016, there was an average of 97 deaths from firearm violence per day: 35 476 altogether (1). In the 10 years ending with 2016, deaths of U.S. civilians from firearm violence exceeded American combat fatalities in World War II."

"Scientist" conflates homicides, suicides and accidents. Japan has NO privately owned firearms and many more suicides than the US.

Are medical accreditation organizations now requiring firearm safety education as part of internal medicine training? Dollars-to-donuts almost none of signatories have ever even touched a firearm.

[bravo whiskey]

I go to my chiropractor and just take the holster etal off and put it on the counter in the room. Unless I know I am going to have to strip down I have it on for doctor visits. Usually I do not have a round in the chamber for these visits but afterwards i visit the head in the building and chamber a round before walking out to car.

[rktman]

Haven’t been asked specifically that question but, I had the need to go to the ER there last Saturday and was asked if I felt like harming myself or others. I suppose, had I answered in the affirmative, they may have asked about weapons. ;-)

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“I believe that it was held that docs may not ask.”
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In Florida, I think that was reversed and they now CAN ask.

I live in Maine...Second Amendment country with open carry, Constitutional Carry, and a huge rate of firearm ownership.

I’ve had countless doctors appointments over the last 17 years, and I have never been asked anything about firearms. Not once.

[rktman]

Just think how many more suicides there would be in Japan if guns were readily available. Liblogic 101.

[Sooth2222]

According to the CDC, there were 461 deaths nationwide resulting from the accidental discharge of firearms, and 3406 from drowning in 2014.

Wouldn't it be more helpful to ask patients if they know how to swim?

[a fool in paradise]

I thought doctors supported suicide for any reason.

[SirFishalot]

I actually shoot trap with my doctor and his teenage son. I think he already knows. LOL

[tumblindice]

It's a living dude! But too gnarly for you plebs, whoahhhh

[Wonder Warthog]

Wintemute has been a rabid gun grabber since forever, and has been trying to inveigle the physicians organizations and/or the CDC as a back-alley way to ban guns. Congress specifically disallowed any funding to flow to CDC for any gun-related propaganda.

Any physician who broaches this subject with me will get his head handed to him.

[tbw2]

This question on gun ownership is already part of the standard questions in the AMA approved electronic health records system.