"Docs vs. Glocks" Battle Continues
TALLAHASSEE -- Should a trip to the doctor for a checkup include a question about whether or not you own a gun? Florida can start enforcing a ban on those questions shortly.
Pediatrician Louis St. Petery says the first funeral he attended in Tallahassee was for a child who shot himself on accident with a parent’s hand gun.
“That was a shocking thing for us at that point in time, for my wife and me, and one of the reasons that I’m pretty passionate about the fact this needs to be done correctly,” he said.
St. Petery and the American Academy of Pediatrics have been fighting against a law for the past four years that would prevent doctors from asking patients about gun ownership.
The “Docs vs. Glocks” law pits the first amendment against the second amendment. An appeals court lifted the injunction on the law earlier this week.
National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer says questioning patients about guns is outside of the scope of a doctor’s work.
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/Appeals-Court-Upholds-Docs-vs-Glocks-Law-319090861.html
NRA. Nuff said.
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