Your NRA at Work

If you are a gun totin’ right to bare arms, shootem’ up type of guy or gal, you’ll be glad to know that the NRA in Florida drafted legislature denying doctors the right to talk to patients about whether they have guns at home. You know, dangerous things like, “Do you have them and if so, are they locked up so your children won’t find them and …well, you know.”  Under the sneaky guise of health risks. The NRA wrote the law and the law makers passed it.

Then, wouldn’t you know it, some sneaky doctors got together, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians, got together as asked a federal judge to block the law. They had the audacity to say it violated their 1^st amendment right to free speech.

The NRA fought hard saying doctors should just do medical care (I suppose like mending gunshot wounds) not give moral judgments.

Here’s the amazing part, the judge ruled in favor of the doctors.

At issue in this litigation is a law directed at maintaining patients' privacy rights regarding firearm ownership within the context of the doctor-patient relationship. In effect, however, the law curtails practitioners' ability to inquire about whether patients own firearms and burdens their ability to deliver a firearm safety message to patients, under certain circumstances.

Only in America