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Related: About this forum"Docs vs. Glocks" Battle Continues
TALLAHASSEE -- Should a trip to the doctor for a checkup include a question about whether or not you own a gun? Florida can start enforcing a ban on those questions shortly.
Pediatrician Louis St. Petery says the first funeral he attended in Tallahassee was for a child who shot himself on accident with a parents hand gun.
That was a shocking thing for us at that point in time, for my wife and me, and one of the reasons that Im pretty passionate about the fact this needs to be done correctly, he said.
St. Petery and the American Academy of Pediatrics have been fighting against a law for the past four years that would prevent doctors from asking patients about gun ownership.
The Docs vs. Glocks law pits the first amendment against the second amendment. An appeals court lifted the injunction on the law earlier this week.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer says questioning patients about guns is outside of the scope of a doctors work.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Appeals-Court-Upholds-Docs-vs-Glocks-Law-319090861.html
NRA. Nuff said.
olddots
(10,237 posts)and the dinosaur they rode in on .
The NRA is the largest force of evil in America .
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)gun safety, they are too ignorant to own and play with gunz.
I applaud these brave physicians, and condemn the gun fanciers who oppose them.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Is this typical of Tallahassee?
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)never has asked me if I own firearm. Maybe because he has seen it on my side when I go visit him."
For Gungeoneers who ask how I know commenter is a racist, well toting a gun in public is a tip off, but maybe not absolute. But the commenter's vile avatar of Michelle Obama confirms it.