Ray From Cleveland
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- Aug 16, 2015
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Just browsing through my local news site and found this story about Florida Doctors wanting to nosey around their patients homes for guns. Of course they don't physically go to the house, but they want to interrogate children about guns that adults in their home may possess.
Florida passed a law that prohibits doctors from practicing this kind of interrogation, and anti-gun doctors wish to fight it, even to the Supreme Court if they have to.
I won't paste the entire piece, but just a few paragraphs that are at the heart of the story:
"Supporters in the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature and the NRA say the law became necessary when, in their view, doctors began overstepping their bounds in the examination room by pushing an anti-Second Amendment, anti-gun political agenda. The NRA cites several examples of doctors telling patients they'd have to find a new physician if they refused to answer questions about gun ownership or telling parents they should get rid of any guns in the home.
The law, supporters point out, permits doctors under a "good faith" provision to ask about firearms if the questions are deemed "relevant to the patient's medical care or safety" or the safety of other people.
"These provisions target discrimination and harassment, not speech, and they do nothing to impair doctor-patient discussions of firearm safety," NRA attorney Charles Cooper said in court papers. "Even if viewed as a speech regulation, the (law) is a reasonable regulation of speech incidental to the practice of medicine."
The law also has some teeth: doctors who violate the law could face professional discipline, such as a fine, or even lose their medical licenses. The state Department of Health would investigate any complaints, although the law has never been enforced because it was blocked in 2012 by a Miami judge's decision that found it an unconstitutional violation of free speech rights."
Battle rages over Florida law limiting doctors' gun speech
Doctors have the right to ask. It's called free speech but there is an even more practical reason. MDs prescribe dangerous psych meds to dangerous patients and it is their medical and ethical responsibility to know. Doctors need to know if their crazy patients own guns. Nearly every mass shooting has involved psych meds and or crazy people with guns.
You 1984 lovers want to categorize people who own guns as psyche patients?
What does interrogating a child have to do with that? This is about doctors fighting to torture children about gun ownership in their household. This has nothing to do with child protection, it has to do with their anti-gun agenda. It's no different than a conservative doctor interrogating a child about their parents support for Bernie Sanders. It's purely political and has nothing to do with treating patients for illnesses.
If doctors want to snoop into family matters, let them give up medicine and take up social work instead.