Kids and Guns: Why Doctors Have a Right to Know

[Fentonite]

The firearms question was originally (supposedly) intended as a general home-safety question i.e., Do you keep you household chemicals locked up so Junior can't drink them?; Do you keep your electrical outlets plugged so Junior can't stick a fork in them?; Do you keep a safety gate at the top of the stairs so Junior can't fall?, etc. There really are morons who need these questions asked, and to be educated. I think the intent of the question has been bastardized into a political tool.

Healthcare providers can ask anything they want. Sexual orientation? Anal sex? How much you drink/smoke? Recreational drugs? All have medical relevance. Patients can choose to answer, or not. It would be a really stupid doc who would fire a patient for not answering these questions. Most will just give some safety info to the patient if they were concerned about a behavior.

Regarding the stats above - if accurate, would be a good example of how to abuse statistics to make an unfair and illogical comparison. But these stats are erroneous, fictitious, or simply meant as humor, and have been debunked http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors...tor-deaths.htm

[jhood001]

I take it back, Byte!

[rockhound]

you seem to have a second sphincter, are there fireamrs at your disposal in your home?

[KevDen2005]

If my doctor asks me I will probably tell him no unless he is someone really close to me.

It's only my business who knows I have guns...And everyone else on this forum

[cstone]

Mine has never asked, although I don't think he would need to as it is normally in a holster, on my belt, in my pants, hanging up next to the exam table while he palpates things I'd rather not speak about.

[theGinsue]

I've been asked - several times (by the tech taking my vitals and medical history, not the doctor/PA him/her self.

I'd have to answer NO.

Not because I'd want to lie, but because of that tragic boating accident I had in 2009 where I lost all of my firearms. It still pains me...

Sorry, I have to go now.

[Irving]

Thanks for that. I've got a little more argumentative ammo now.

No you don't. Those are fun statistics, but please don't ever use them in an actual conversation.

[Byte Stryke]

I take it back, Byte!

Its ok

72.8% of all statistics are fabricated and 5/4ths of all Americans don't understand Fractions.


you will always be able to twist and spin number to one side or the other.


Like "There was a Shooting today in XXX City... no one was hurt."
WTF? Then who was shot?!?!

but its still listed by the Libs as a shooting.

[sniper7]

-- There are 700,000 physicians in the United States.
-- There are 120,000 accidental deaths in the United States caused by physicians every year, and the accidental death percentage per physician is 0.171.
-- There are 80 million gun owners in the United States.
-- There are 1,500 accidental deaths from guns every year, regardless of age group, and the accidental death percentage per gun owner is 0.0000188.

This means, the letter points out, that doctors are 9,000 times more deadly than gun owners.



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do we have mag restrictions on them? what about taking away the "evil" features. I think we need an assault doctors ban. probably need to do a lot of background checks as well. I think we also need to work up a list of different doctors to ban.

[Byte Stryke]

Ohh, and when Little Bytes Doctor asks, I tell him, "Of course, how else and I going to teach him firearm safety?!"