Should doctors or school officials be asking you about whether you have guns?

Well, with doctors, I can see them asking so as to pass along information about things like gun storage or even hearing loss from shooting to parents. That's within their realm of responsibilities. I can also see them handing parents a pamphlet and just keeping their questions to themselves.

With school officials, it's really none of their business.

But what do you do when someone asks? How are you supposed to handle it?

Over at The Truth About Guns, writer Doug Howlett offers some thoughts and a video on the topic:

The immediate answer is, “None of your f’ing business,” unless you’re buddies with the doc or the principal and he wants to know what rifle you’re using on your next African safari (ok, I’ve never been on one but it is a dream) or which carry gun you prefer because he’s looking for recommendations on a new one for himself. But typically, there is no good purpose to such questions other than to use them as a pretense to offer an anti-gun, nanny-state lecturing on why guns are bad or for a more nefarious purpose, to begin tracking gun owners and building a database that can be used against them politically in the “possibly” no-too-distant future.

Either way, when asked such questions, or when such topics inevitably come up, you do still have rights, including your children, and when necessary, there are ways to legally ensure you and your child remain protected, whether the discussion is about toy guns (as you’ll see in the video) or real ones in the home. Virginia attorney Gilbert Ambler offers some legal insight into this matter in the following video posted on his YouTube channel, The Commonwealth’s Gun Rights.

My general approach is to view such questions much like Howlett does, to see them as largely intrusive and generally no one else's business. The fact that we homeschool means we're not nearly as likely to face such interrogations, especially at school, but doctors are still going to ask. Unlike Howlett, I can see legitimate reasons to ask, but considering how anti-gun the AMA has been lately, I'm not inclined to have that discussion with any doctor I don't know is at least Second Amendment friendly.

Ambler is most definitely right about explaining to your children about their rights if and when school officials start to try and interrogate them. They also need to know that school officials may try to tell them they don't need an attorney, that they're not part of an interrogation, etc. They're allowed to trick students into forfeiting their rights, so far as I know.

Look, I hate to say it, but we're outnumbered. The anti-gun forces have taken control of most of our institutions, which means pushing an anti-gun agenda pretty much everywhere. They're going to use those institutions to do whatever they feel they need to do to undermine our Second Amendment rights. This isn't coordinated or anything, it's just what happens when one side cares more about advancing the agenda than anything else.

So dig in, prepare your kids, and be ready.