Believing folks are so uneducated about guns that they need their doctor to educate them while giving them a prostate exam, lancing a boil, or setting a broken leg is ludicrous. With the ever increasing scarcity of doctors, the acknowledged increase in paperwork required for each patient thanks to Obamacare, the increase of patients to be seen each day (and made even worse with our nation’s newest population expansion thanks to the immigration issue), and no increase – even by executive order! – to the number of hours in each day, it would seem physicians’ time is better spent addressing the health concern presented before them during each appointment. Side conversations about guns, seatbelts, swimming pools, hair dryers near bathtubs, avoiding outdoors/windows/plumbing during lightning storms, number and type of dogs or livestock owned, not running with scissors, etc. take up precious time needed to address the current issue or to provide enlightenment in areas of diet, exercise, stress control.

Medical records will now be more subject to government scrutiny than they have ever been. It is not much of a leap to deduce the real purpose for providing gun ownership info to the new healthcare oversight agency, your friendly, apolitical, and efficient IRS, via our doctors’ records.

They have also never asked if I have fresh batteries in the smoke alarms or if there is a fence around the pool or if there are child-safety latches on the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen nor have they asked if the dog has had its shots or if we make sure to dump standing water out of buckets and plants to prevent mosquitoes and they have not quizzed if there is a ready to use fire extinguisher in the home. To me all of these are important to safety at my home.

From what we read this gun question is more about recording and reporting which of us may have firearms in our homes and to me that is an infringement upon my right to have and bear arms. Where and how far would this information go if one answered “Yes” to the question.?

I am very confident my doctor has the skills to help me maintain my health.
However, I am not as certain that they have the “gun sense” to counsel anyone on the responsibilities of gun ownership and control.

Thank You, North Escambia for helping us maintain our First Amendment Rights as citizens of the United States of America.