Do you have a gun in your house

[McBear]

There's lies coming out of a certain area of DC almost everyday that go unchallenged, and the media keeps repeating those lies.
Snopes is a reference source for "misinformation" amongst other things. They haven't been doing their job, apparently.

"Welcome to snopes.com, the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation."

"repeating those lies"

Yep...but foxnews HQ is pretty nice in the technical side.

If you have a question that isn't resolved...just send it to them. They'll take. Then you can find out if it is fact or spin. That is what everyone else does. Most don't depend on talk radio to decipher that for them.

 

[McBear]

I guess that I'll have to ask snopes about that one.

Or Urbanlegends or factcheck...wait, someone already did.

 

[ladder13]

OK last word before I declare victory and say I'm done .

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[Martya]

I go to truthorfiction.com | search first, then snopes then urbanlegends. As McBear suggests, I also plug a selection of the email into google to see what others are saying.

Usually the provoking emails are easily spotted - "...send this to everyone in your contacts list..." - and I just delete them. But sometimes I do want to get the facts - well, as factual at the interweb can be...

 

[McBear]

I go to truthorfiction.com | search first, then snopes then urbanlegends. As McBear suggests, I also plug a selection of the email into google to see what others are saying.

Usually the provoking emails are easily spotted - "...send this to everyone in your contacts list..." - and I just delete them. But sometimes I do want to get the facts - well, as factual at the interweb can be...

As many folks found out last year with a couple of "You won't believe what _____ has done now!" type chain emails, our good friends in the former eastern bloc are using them as trojans to carry viruses into as many computers as possible. They work better than LOLcats for getting a file with an embedded virus distributed and most folks don't have virus protection that covers embeds as they tend to come up, distribute, sleep on the system for days to months then wake up.

 

[ma deuce]

Interesting. I've had this same discussion with my doc, who's a CCW. (Docs are one of the few categories that can get Maryland CCW permits without problems.) He said he doesn't know anyone who actually asks that question, but has read that certain health agencies and hospitals are, and that some professional bodies have advocated it. I personally know of one organization in which policy-makers have considered asking, but have not adopted the practice. So I'd guess I'd have to say I have no solid knowledge that the question is actually being asked, but do have indications that the question is "in the air", as they say, in more places than Snopes.

If anyone asks me, I say I used to, but lost them all in a tragic boating accident.

 

[LenS]

AMA and MA Medical Society creates questionnaire forms for docs to use with their patients. They have the gun question on the form. I and my Wife both saw it a number of years ago when we visited our PCP and he asked us to fill out the questionnaire. Yes it gets input into the computer and the gov't and medical insurance companies will have access to that info.

In the past we ignored the question but since I'm retired from everything but serving some paper and teaching firearms courses, my medical profile now says "firearms instructor". Besides my doc knows that I was with the PD for years and living in the same town saw me in uniform with a gun on me, so hiding it was a bit fruitless.

 

[jag312]

One of my doctors does ask me about guns. He likes them. He especially likes machineguns. If we didn't live in the People's Republic of California, he would own some machineguns. He would love to come to my work to try some of our machineguns.

 

[Lenny_D]

I've been to Doctor's whose questionnaires have asked whether there ia a gun in the home. I just ignore it and leave it blank. I also never give them my SS# on those forms. Just ask them next time how they secure that information.

 

[M29since14]

This diverges just a bit from the OP's question but today, in The Indianapolis Star op-ed section, is a letter from a physician (a Dr. Stephen Dunlop, I believe was his name) who is associated with some gun control organization here in Indiana. His line is that for firearms maintained in a home, for each legitimate defensive use of a gun, there are 1.3 homicides and 37 suicides. So there you have it, guys. (Yes, men apparently use firearms to commit suicide at an alarming rate, compared to women - imagine that.) Just get rid of all your guns at home, leave them at the skeet club, or whatever, and you will be safer. He has the numbers to prove it.

 

[Martya]

Typical specious anti-gun argument.

There are roughly 3 times as many deaths from automobile accidents than by guns each year (discounting suicide). I have 3 cars parked on my property so I am responsible for how many deaths by car last year???

 

[RSWMTB]

Actually Snopes is about 99.9% accurate.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[Sebago Son]

NOPES!

I guess that I'll have to ask snopes about that one.

Snopes carries more water for the lefties than the San Francisco Department of Public Works.

 

[HKSmith]

I'm a practicing physician and I see lots of Medicare patients and lots of veterans. I know of no directive or requirement to ask them about gun ownership; the e-mail is nonsense.

Florida passed a law prohibiting physicians from asking patients about gun ownership; the courts recently struck the law down (quite properly, in my opinion) on 1st amendment grounds. If someone asks you a question you don't like, you can choose not to answer or go elsewhere. This issue has nothing to do with the 2nd amendment.

The only time I discuss guns with my patients is when they share my interest in them!

 

[McBear]

Snopes carries more water for the lefties than the San Francisco Department of Public Works.

You might want to check with the other two vetting sources, urbanlegends and truthorfiction about snopes. They seem to have a differing view.

Snopes Exposed - Is Snopes.com Biased? - Urban Legends

 

[Sebago Son]

One lies and the other swears to it...

 

[Nico Testosteros]

That's the problem with those who find the right wing chain email lies believable, they find them believable.

 

[walnutred]

I've never been asked that question by either the VA doctors I see or the few civilian Doctors I see. However if asked my answer would be: Why, are you thinking of buying one?

 

[MP22]

It's bogus.....

 

[silentflyer]

The couple who run snopes.com are Canadian citizens, not registered to vote in the US, and factcheck.com and politfact.com and nexus-plexus are other sites to check a lot of this stuff. Belive about 1/10 of the stuff that is forwarded to your email, remember someone is making $$$ every time you click on a banner or link.