Doesn't happen just to kids.

When I changed clinics/doctors a few years I saw the new doc for the first time for a physical. He had recently moved to the Conifer area from some big city...don't recall where.

In the early stages of the exam he was asking me a lot of lifestyle-type questions...routine stuff. The same "do you have guns around the house" question came up. I told him I was a former police officer, owned a gun store, taught concealed carry classes and carried a gun with me most everywhere I went...and had several around the house. It seemed like he just absentmindedly marked down my response. Then he told me to take off my jacket and shirt so he could listen to my heart, lungs, etc...

I did as I was told revealing my Kimber in the IWB holster. He looked at the gun, looked at me, looked at the gun, looked at me...this went on for several seconds. Then he said, "You just told me you carried a gun everywhere you went. I didn't know that meant here." I told him I thought the definition of "everywhere" included the Dr's office. I also asked him if he was bothered by it. He was honest and said he really wasn't bothered so much as, "...I'm just surprised. No, shocked!" I told him I would leave if he preferred and if that would make him more comfortable. He said he'd be fine and we finished the physical.

Later on he took my CCW class along with another doc from the office. He'd found out how many off his patients carried/owned guns and started asking his nurses and other staff about guns and if they owned them. He told me he decided to educate himself. I thought that was pretty stand-up stuff.