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Why are gun owners afraid to admit they own guns?

One Brow said:
If someone in the house is alcoholic or depressed, it's much more dangerous when there is a gun present.

Is there any reason the doctor shouldn't know?
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It’s simply not their business. Frame it however you want. I’m not mad about it. Just think it’s irrelevant with some possible extreme situations.

I’ve never been asked. But if I was I’d probably tell them it’s not their business.
 
Stoked said:
It’s simply not their business. Frame it however you want. I’m not mad about it. Just think it’s irrelevant with some possible extreme situations.

I’ve never been asked. But if I was I’d probably tell them it’s not their business.
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If someone has a medical condition that's more dangerous when guns are around, it's not the business of the doctors to know about the guns?

Why is that more off-limits than, as an example, asking if you live near a large, stagnant pond?
 
One Brow said:
Can we agree there are different degrees of danger? I have never heard of a small child accidentally killing a family member with a hammer. I'm not aware of any study that indicates having a hammer in a household makes it more likely a resident will die. Both of these are true of guns.

I don't have a solid-enough take to know the best ways to keep gun ownership safe, but I certainly know a deceptive, facile, and weak analogy.
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fishonjazz said:
There are degrees of danger. A gun is way more dangerous than a hammer for instance.
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There certainly are degrees of danger. But it's people that's dangerous; an unanimated thing is not by itself.
There's always a chance that badass/stupid behaviors cause a deadly incident/accident, but there are other things statistically more deadly from a household point of view (i.e. car/motorcycle).
That said, I'll say I've got no problem is someone ask me if I've got a gun, and I'll take the highway here. Guns are a complex/sensitive theme, english is not native for me, no need to be misundertood or to misunderstand some other fellow poster.
 
Because guns represent masculinity. A masculinity that is threatened by economic and social gains by women and minorities and losses by globalization and automation. Research shows that white males are turning to guns and opioids to cope with these economic, social, and political changes. The NRA, GOP, Big Pharm, and gun manufacturers all benefit from this.

Newly unsealed documents in a landmark lawsuit Tuesday in Cleveland show the pressure within drug companies to sell opioids in the face of numerous red flags during the height of the epidemic.

The release of the exhibits — sworn depositions of executives, internal corporate emails and experts’ reports — also reveals the ignored concerns of some employees about the huge volume of pain pills streaming across the nation.

In one exhibit, emails show that a Purdue Pharma executive received an order from a distributor for 115,200 oxycodone pills, which was nearly twice as large as that distributor’s average order over the previous three months. The order came in at 4:15 p.m., according to the emails sent in October 2009.

It was approved one minute later.
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