It may seem harmless in and of itself to ask people if they own guns, but one should realize that having doctors keep track of which of their patients possess firearms could open the door to a national registry that gun owners have worried about for years. With such a scenario in the realm of possibility, its hard to imagine that one would want to freely disclose their ownership of firearms to a potentially-hostile actor, so consider the following advice:
“These doctors claim genuine concern about their patients – and that’s probably true. White men who show signs of depression are are at a high risk to commit suicide with a gun, statistically speaking. And simply being forced to confess you keep loaded guns lying around your house within reach of your young children might be enough to convince someone to lock up the guns.
But that’s not the point. The point is that in a political and cultural environment that is increasingly hostile to the Second Amendment and law-abiding gun owners, telling anyone outside your immediate family that you are armed is a risk. It’s a risk because that information will go on your medical record and if they don’t already, the feds will soon have access to all your medical records.
And it’s only a small step until one day when liberals control all the levers of government and can impose mandatory gun registration or confiscation.
And you’d better believe they’ll use all resources available to them to find out who owns the guns so you may be disarmed. Quickly and without incident.
So what do you do when your doctor asks if you have a gun in the home? Jazz Shaw, writing for HotAir, has a good idea: Lie.
Don’t tell them you do have a gun, because that instantly becomes part of your medical record.
Don’t waffle, or tell the doctor you’re ‘uncomfortable’ answering the question, because they very well may notate that too.
Lie. Right through your teeth. ‘Why no, doc, I don’t have any guns in the home at all!’
It’s none of anybody’s business anyway.
By the way, that question never was on the questionnaire I filled out. But I’ll be ready next time.”
Source: The Federalist Papers
It is none of their business. Do not answer.