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...linked to Business Insider which linked to MedPageToday which has the excerpt below. Numerous posters have responded regarding the Florida law and the doctor who started the controversy that you choose not to discuss.
Gun Safety
The AMA adopted a policy opposing restrictions on doctors being able to talk to patients about firearm safety, including how to safely store guns so kids won't find them.
In May, the Florida state legislature passed a bill that made it illegal for pediatricians and other physicians to ask patients or their parents whether they have guns in their home. Gun-rights advocates contended that such questions are an invasion of patients' privacy and an infringement of Second Amendment rights.
Pediatric groups have recommended that physicians ask parents whether they keep guns at home, and discuss gun safety with those that do in order to prevent shootings involving children. In 2009, according to the CDC, nearly 400 children younger than 15 were killed by firearms. Under the law, doctors would have faced a $500 fine for inquiring about gun ownership and recording it in a patient's medical record.
In September, a federal judge in Florida declared the law unconstitutional.
The AMA's new resolution, which also was introduced by the California delegation, officially opposes any laws placing restrictions on gun safety discussions from occurring between physicians, patients, and their families, and says that doctors should be free to have firearm safety conversations during office visits.
The AMA adopted a policy opposing restrictions on doctors being able to talk to patients about firearm safety, including how to safely store guns so kids won't find them.
In May, the Florida state legislature passed a bill that made it illegal for pediatricians and other physicians to ask patients or their parents whether they have guns in their home. Gun-rights advocates contended that such questions are an invasion of patients' privacy and an infringement of Second Amendment rights.
Pediatric groups have recommended that physicians ask parents whether they keep guns at home, and discuss gun safety with those that do in order to prevent shootings involving children. In 2009, according to the CDC, nearly 400 children younger than 15 were killed by firearms. Under the law, doctors would have faced a $500 fine for inquiring about gun ownership and recording it in a patient's medical record.
In September, a federal judge in Florida declared the law unconstitutional.
The AMA's new resolution, which also was introduced by the California delegation, officially opposes any laws placing restrictions on gun safety discussions from occurring between physicians, patients, and their families, and says that doctors should be free to have firearm safety conversations during office visits.
I have no problem with folks who "support passage any law" they happen to like. I include laws favoring gun-control in that category. Having free speech is a right. You OP implies that you have a problem with such thinking. People have problems with many aspects of proposed laws. Sam Adams called it an "animating contest of freedom". That's what it's all about; having a say and taking part.
I sincerely applaud anyone for taking their side of an issue to their friends, family, neighbors and, especially, to their elected officials. Without discussion and debate...
...where are we but uninformed sheep.
I one breath you abhor gagging doctors and in the next you criticize folks for voting honestly in your poll.
Here's my poll: Are you for or against the First Amendment? (This has about as much to do with this group's SoP as your OP.)
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