Doctors have been receiving literature urging them to ask their patients a lot of detailed questions about firearms ownership. We received a first-hand report from an ardent JPFO supporter who recently underwent this very type of probing by his doctor. This line of questioning presents three dangers.
Some doctors actually believe that firearms are dangerous like an open jar of smallpox bacillus.
Second, patients generally trust their doctors and will submit to these intrusive questions. Third, although medical records are supposed to be confidential, that can all change in a heartbeat. There have been repeated moves in Congress to mandate a universal medical health system, or at least a universal medical identification chip. The chip would contain all of a person's medical records. In both plans the patient's medical data becomes part of a national data base.