If you have not heard the
good news of late, Rabbi R. Mermelstein has agreed to answer a limited
amount of firearms related questions for readers of the Gun Owners
Alliance Web Pages. Feel free to browse:
and ask the rabbi your firearms related questions! Additionally, we
continue to recover previous "Ask The Rabbi" articles. We will add such
articles to our ever growing list, so please check back often for
updates from the past!
In April of this year a man in Harrisburg, PA, had his driver's license
revoked by the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania for telling
his physician about his alcohol consumption habits, as found at:
Nearly four years ago Gun Owners of America reported on the vigorous
campaign against firearms by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP),
as can be read at http://www.gunowners.org/op0038.htm
The right to own firearms comes packaged with the responsibility to
secure them from being handled by anyone except you or other
responsible adults that you designate. How you do that is your
business, but doing it is not optional.
Medical practitioners, with their arch nemesis the American Bar
Association getting plump through frivolous and opportunistic
litigation, either fear for their licenses and livelihoods or take to
heart what they read in the journal of the American Academy of
Pediatrics.
Our purpose is not to provide legal advice. For guidance in all matters
involving the law you're on your own. Thinking people exercise
discretion before engaging in any activity regulated by the legal
system. People who don't think will eventually wish that had.
Whatever your doctor's agenda, whether it's political (read anti-gun)
or the fear of being sued by lawyers or prosecuted by the state for not
reporting your personal information to the authorities, either refuse
to answer any questions about your ownership of firearms or walk out of
the office without saying a word if pressed for an answer. Silence is
golden. It may even keep the police from confiscating your guns.
There was once a time when the doctor and patient relationship was
sacrosanct. There was also a time when little boys were dressed in
knickerbockers and television screens were small and round.
Times change. We may yet see the day when doctors are required to read
to you your Miranda rights prior to any line of questioning just as a
police officer would do in the event you are arrested.
