Amanda --->Cold dead hands (or a lawyer), was Bowling for Columbine

[Beth]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "joywitch_m_curmudgeon" 
<joym999 at a...> wrote:
 But the reason why the doctor asks you if you have guns is 
> because it *is* one the biggest threats to child safety in the 
U.S.  Thousands of kids are killed in gun accidents every year.  
These are not just freak accidents, which as you pointed out can 
happen anywhere, anytime, but mostly they are caused by morons who 
leave loaded guns or ammunition lying around where their uneducated 
kids can get their hands on them.  That doctor doesn't know that you 
are not one of those morons, and I'm glad he asks.
> 
> --Joywitch

But then shouldn't he also ask if her children always wear their 
seatbelts (properly fitted by a professional, of course), their 
helmets when riding their bikes, whether they're always supervised 
when around more than an inch of water and all the other common, 
potentially lethal hazards to children? It seems to be a statement, 
more than a concern. 

Beth