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VMI77 wrote:

cb1000rider wrote:

E.Marquez wrote:It's been years now, but I did have a Peds doc ask about guns in the house once when I had our youngest son at the doc. I responded by asking her if she participated in a very personal sexual act.. she declined to respond, and understood at that point why I asked.. I said I apologize for asking a personal question I had no right to ask.
She was actually a good doc, and we were happy to have her.... This was in Oregon, 2002..

In 2002 the CDC released several studies that had to do with gun ownership and children. I understand why a pediatrician might try to educate parents. If everyone practiced appropriate safety around children, we wouldn't have such statistics.

Course, trampolines are dangerous to kids too. I'm not offended by a discussion about them.

Doctors can ask me whatever they want that might facilitate a reasonable discussion. I can choose to not answer if I don't want to.

Instead of just believing that there are no nefarious intentions, why don't you check out the AAP website? They are openly anti-gun and and use their professional association to advance the gun control agenda. The AAP is run by left-wing extremists. Their policy paper is downright scary....they advocate gun confiscation, among other things:

The AAP continues to support a number of specific measures to reduce the destructive effects of guns in the lives of children and adolescents through the
implementation of the following recommendations.

-Enact a strong, effective assault weapon ban;

-Eliminate the gun show loophole and require mandatory background checks and
waiting periods before all firearm purchases;

-Ban on high-capacity magazines;

-Enact strong handgun regulations; and

-Require safe firearm storage under federal law.

Here's what they say about an assault weapons ban: they seek confiscation.

It should ban possession, manufacture, transfer, sale, and import of assault weapons. Current assault weapons should not be excluded
from the ban by “grandfathering” them. The ban should include stiff penalties for violating the statute. Civil and criminal sanctions should be included. The ban should also include a prohibition on the purchase, sale, or possession of detachable ammunition magazines with a capacity of greater than 10 rounds.

Here's what they say about firearm storage: they want to make guns useless for self-defense.

Safe Gun Storage
Safe gun storage (guns unloaded and locked, ammunition locked separately) reduces unintentional injury and suicide risk for children and adolescents. In addition, a number of design options have been proposed to decrease the likelihood of unintentional injury by a firearm, as well as limiting access by unauthorized users. The AAP urges that guns be subject to consumer product regulations regarding child access, safety, and design. These include trigger locks, lock boxes, personalized safety mechanisms, and trigger pressures that are too high for young children.

Child access prevention (CAP) laws establish criminal penalties for owners who do not store their firearms appropriately (e.g., unloaded, in a locked compartment). The best CAP laws make it a felony offense for a gun owner if an injury results from a child accessing an unsecured gun.

So, have a gun ready for self-defense, go to prison.

And on their spying activities:

As noted in a request for information (RFI) letter dated December 27, pediatricians should have no deterrents to ask whether a gun is in the home. In fact, Section 2713 of the ACA requires that insurers offer Bright Futures services for no copay in all non-grandfathered plans. The Bright Futures guidelines for well -child visits include anticipatory guidance regarding whether firearms are in the home.

On anti-gun propaganda and censorship:

The AAP policy statement on media violence recommends the development of quality, violence -free programming and constructive dialogue among child health and education advocates, the 7 Federal Communications Commission, and the television and motion picture industries, as well as toy, video game, and other software manufactures and designers, in an effort to reduce the romanticization of guns in the popular media as a means of resolving conflict.

There's a lot more to see there. These are not people who are open to rational discussion, these are anti-gun extremists exploiting professional credibility to advance a political agenda. They also use the current left-wing trope of "firearm safety" when what they really mean is the total elimination of the private ownership of firearms:

The absence of guns in homes and communities is the most reliable and effective measure to prevent firearm-related injuries in children and adolescents.