Boston, MA -(Ammoland.com)- Boston Mayor Martin Walsh wants to mandate that Doctors teach patients about gun safety. It appears to be another Orwellian definition. Gun safety in these circumstances seems to mean getting rid of guns. There is no mention of using known gun safety experts who have been working on the subject for decades. From bizjournals.com:
Involving doctors in gun safety: This act would require medical professionals to ask patients about guns in the home, and bring up the topics of gun safety. The goal, Boston Police Commissioner William Gross said, is to identify those at risk for domestic violence, suicide or child access to guns in order to guide people to mental health counseling, resources or other help. “We’re just asking them to help identify ways to save lives,” Gross said.
The fact that a patient owns guns would not be put in their medical record, and is not intended to have physicians help solve crimes.
Chief of Health and Human Services Marty Martinez said that while the program is already common practice at many of the city’s community health centers, legislation would broaden the program statewide.
The claim is the ownership of guns will not be put in a patients medical records. If not, how will the ownership of guns help to “guide people to mental health counseling, resources, or other help”? Maybe the information will be stored somewhere else.
This is part of the Progressive push to medicalize all of society. Some of the first big wins of Progressives were to exclude medical issues from most Constitutional protections, in the name of “safety”. The big issue was mandatory vaccinations. Mandatory vaccination arguably violates the First and Fourth Amendments to the Constitution.
That is the model being pushed with guns.
There are big differences. No one claims smallpox is a Constitutional right.
Half, or more, of the population understands that being armed offers many advantages to the person armed. It is why Americans tenaciously support the Second Amendment.
The tactic used by Progressives to undermine and destroy the Second Amendment is to propagandize the population into believing they are safer when they are disarmed. Rudyard Kipling had an answer to in his poem, Gods of the Copywrite Headings:
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
It is a longtime tactic of those who want the population disarmed.
Nearly all health journal studies about firearms have the same basic fallacy: They assume that firearms only have bad effects. They fail to consider positive effects. It is as if they tested a new treatment, and only checked to see if there were bad side effects, and never considered if the treatment worked.
Most of the health journal studies have this blind spot, because the authors have chosen to be unarmed. They do not wish to learn that being armed has positive effects. To do so would challenge their world view. People become very uncomfortable when their world view is challenged.
There is at least one study about firearms and outcomes, published in a medical journal, that did not assume firearms always resulted in bad effects. Their finding was the increases in the legal carry of firearms had no effect on homicides or violent crime.
Requiring doctors to ask patients about gun ownership stigmatizes gun ownership. It is a way of chilling the exercise of Second Amendment rights.
Mayor Walsh is not part of the Massachusetts legislature. But he has a large influence on state politics.
Massachusetts is one of the least Second Amendment friendly states in the Union. Will the legislature require doctors to ask about gun ownership in Massachusetts?
They may. It diverts attention away from the high homicide rate in Boston.
About Dean Weingarten:
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
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38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
Read more at https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/watchwomanonthewall/2011/04/the-45-communist-goals-as-read-into-the-congressional-record-1963.html#bXQzuQevZtlTYPTC.99
Let’s ask the doctors how many patients they killed, neglected, or abused per year. Medical abuse and malpractice kills many times more people each year than guns. Hands and feet kill more people every year than guns. So shallow. So very awkward Doctor? Let’s ask how much more the Doctor has to pay on student loans. Let’s ask the Doctor if it was better before the much heralded ‘fix’ called Obamacare was driven down our throats eh? Has the doctor ever finished a Civics Class? Now the high and mighty doctor has MORE paperwork to fill. Now the almighty profession… Read more »
The appropriate response would be “Why, what do you need?”
Doc—-“Do you have any firearms?”
Paitent— “How much money did you make last year?”
Doc– “That’s none of your business”
Paitent– “What kind of car do you drive”
Doc– “Again, thats not really any of your business”
Paitent–“You’re married aren’t you….how often do you and the wife have sex/”
They want to ask you questions that are none of their business, respond by asking them questions that are none of your business…Then collect (all) your medical records from them and find a new doctor.
Keep in mind that the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Psychological Association, the last of which just officially took the position that traditional masculine values are pathological, are ALL liberal political organizations with a virulent dislike of guns, particularly in the hands of ordinary civilians. The AMA is the official spokesman for all doctors, even though only about 25 percent of doctors are willing to join.
i went to one of my specialist in december,after he checked me out he pointed to my NRA hat and asked if i was a member,i told him yes,why. he went on to tell me he just bought an ar-15,he said he’d figured he better get one while he still could. he’s a great guy,we talked about guns for a couple of minutes. when he first asked me i thought,here comes the bullshit,i was glad he didn’t turn out to be a jerkoff,he’s a good doctor,they’re not all assholes.
Remember: patient records are not as private as you think:
https://www.americanpatient.org/2017/06/18/your-medical-records-are-not-private/
Now tie this to Red Flag Laws (which Massachusetts has) and you’ve got a nice little recipe for disarmament. Do not tell doctors you have guns. They do not need to know and are not qualified to speak on them.
We all know that coppers are special people in that if WE lie to THEM we can be criminally charged for lying to a copper. Who knows whether the same sick logic mightn’t be applied to doctors? I the state, under colour of law, deputises them to ask about possession of guns, what stops them from making false statements to their deputies a crime? Further, it would be a simple matter for some grubbermunt hooh hah to simply enquire of the local sheriff whether a given patient has bee granted the Mother May I Card to carry your handgun about… Read more »
These are the health risks from gun handling; A. Hearing damage from inadequate hearing protection. B. Poisoning from metal vapors/ chemical vapors from shooting, vapors and skin absorbing poisons when cleaning guns and handloading (to include handloading). C. Injury if gun blows up, D. Unintended injuries from: 1. Unsafe handling. 2. Improper storage resulting in weapons falling into unauthorized hands. A pamphlet addressing these and solutions can be easily and cheaply prepared and handed to all patents. No questions just hand pamphlet to all. Note that firearms issues are special cases of general health risks (for example, risks of handling… Read more »