Lawsuit raises issue of physicians asking patients for firearms details
A lawsuit has been filed by gun-ban advocates over Florida's new law that prevents physicians from grilling children in the name of "safety" about any firearms their parents may own, but Second Amendment experts say there's an underlying agenda that plainly aims to discourage gun ownership and compile a database on those who won't cooperate in getting rid of weapons.
The Orlando Sentinel reported that Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a law that says doctors and other medical personnel cannot ask patients about gun ownership or guns in their homes and record the responses unless it is connected to the medical treatment.
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The practice has been common at doctor's offices nationwide for years, according to the Second Amendment Foundation. But Florida's effort to protect patient privacy was met with a lawsuit by the Brady Center, where officials claimed, "When 40 percent of gun-owning households with children store their guns unlocked – and in one quarter of these homes the gun is stored loaded – doctors should feel free to talk about the risks guns pose to their families."
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The lawsuit seeks to have the law overturned.
But John Velleco, director of federal affairs at Gun Owners of America, said the lawsuit's premise is wrong, because, "the new law does allow for doctors to discuss firearms ownership if relevant to a patient's medical care or safety.
The sponsor of the plan, state Rep. Jason Brodeur, noted, "There's nothing in the bill that would prevent a safety discussion about firearms like medical personnel would for swimming pools, chemicals or any other potential hazard.
"The bill only states that medical personnel can't ask about firearm ownership directly, record the answer or condition treatment upon the response," he said.
So if the issue is not that doctors are being prohibited from talking about guns among other dangers that children potentially could face, what is the goal of those who want the law struck?
Not complicated, assessed Velleco in a column on the Gunowners of America website.
"The lawsuit hardly conceals its bias against gun rights," he wrote. "'By severely restricting such speech and the ability of physicians to practice such preventative medicine, the Florida statute could result in grievous harm to children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly,'" the lawsuit's plaintiffs alleged.
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