PA Bill Number: HB809
Title: Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for syringe service programs authorized.
Description: Further providing for definitions and for prohibited acts and penalties; and providing for syringe service programs authorized. ...
Last Action: Referred to JUDICIARY
Last Action Date: Mar 5, 2025
Doctors can't get between patients and their guns :: 05/05/2015
My doctor is so nosy. She's always asking me personal questions and writing down notes in her computer. It's like she wants to know everything about me.
One thing I'm glad she hasn't asked about is my guns. But I wouldn't put it past her.
I have the right, according to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to keep and bear arms, including guns and ammo.
It is my private business, and no one else's, how many guns I have, what kind of guns, how I store them and what I do with them.
Here in North Carolina, we finally have a state legislature that understands my fundamental rights. It keeps enacting more and more bills to protect those rights.
Pretty soon, I expect that state law will recognize my right to obtain any guns I like, without a background check or a license, and to carry them with me anywhere I go, making it perfectly clear that no one else has any right to object.
An excellent bill, HB 562, is currently pending and has the full support of the NRA. It is called the Second Amendment Affirmation Act. I love the title.
I won't mention all its provisions, but it has one that is aimed at shutting up nosy doctors. The provision is called Preserving Firearms Privacy for Patients.
It will make it a violation of law for a doctor to ask a patient if he has firearms at home.
Why would a doctor ask?
OK, it makes some exceptions ... like, if you come in with a bullet wound, for example. Even then, I don't really think it's any of the doctor's business that you accidentally shot yourself.
Also, if you're "incompetent due to mental illness." But who's to say? That definition is bound to be abused.
And, the doc could ask if you have a gun if you happen to mention how you're thinking of shooting yourself or maybe someone else. But even then, the doc would be prohibited from telling the cops.
I heard the North Carolina Medical Society is against this proposal, claiming that asking their patients about firearms is a common safety screening question for pediatricians and family physicians.
Bah! They're just nosy.
So what if a patient exhibits signs of acute depression? What's that got to do with guns?
Guns always cheer me up. But even if I want to shoot myself, my doctor has no right to get between me and my gun!
Or even to mention it.
