Posted On: Thursday - August 15th 2024 3:05PM MST
In Topics: Liberty/Libertarianism Healthcare Stupidity Guns
This might seem like yet another curmudgeonry post based on one set of surveys taken for one visit to the pediatrician, but that's not the case this time. This is one of our less frequent Libertarian-oriented posts.
Do you all remember the beginning of this deal in which various government and other organizations became tools of the Anti-Amendment-II forces? I'd call it "mission creep", but that term implies other motivations (the desire for expansion and more power). The CDC cared about guns all of a sudden, cause "gun deaths". Do they have an anti-driving-and-texting program? (Who knows? Maybe they do.) Credit card companies got roped in, or caved in, to stopping transactions involving gun stores. Anti-Constitutional forces have tried all manner of backhanded methods to push through their agenda so as to avoid being obviously wrong in the spotlight.
Back in the 1990s, as I recall, I'd read about this practice in healthcare in which parents would be asked about guns in the home. What was the point of that? The more paranoid among me, errr, us, might wonder if that information stayed in files of that doctor's office only. Of course, I'd tell them to piss up a rope if ever asked, I reckoned, but I've been mostly in Conservative areas in which they wouldn't dare. (Not good for bidness! Not at all.) However, I didn't expect web portals on the internet. Nobody DOES!
When I got to the question above, I kind of blew off the part after "your home", realizing that the rest of the question refers to what, say, Phylis Schlafly, to pick a random Conservative lady, would have called "broken homes". Keep that in mind for a bit. So, there you are. There was my chance to tell them this was virtually none of their business.
(√) Decline to answer... hmmm, would that answer put me under suspicion for being one of those crackpot Libertarian Dads, the kind who make their children write papers based on John Birch Society articles? Yeah, I did, but putting this into a computer database rather than just leaving a paper form blank* bugged me.
I'd rather bug them instead. Thinking only of our own house here, I thought the answer (√) Unsure should really freak someone out back in "Data Collections". "Wait, what, you don't KNOW if you have a gun in your house?! Where'd you see it last?"
"Well, it could be under the mattress, but then we went to the range. So, we might have left it out there, or in the car, or...." That's not exactly the situation. It's more like, to be honest here, I have rounded up some guns recently that I didn't even remember buying.
So my answer to screw with the system was (√) Unsure (When will I get the tattoo? Why come I don't have ...?), but a straight answer would have been
* If it came down to "Sir, you missed this one question", I'd have either nicely told them they don't need to know that or gone the "What? Your lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out. Alright then... we gotta go." route.
Comments:
Adam Smith
Friday - August 16th 2024 10:53AM MST
PS: Greetings, Achmed!
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Cheers! ☮️
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Cheers! ☮️
Moderator
Friday - August 16th 2024 10:50AM MST
PS: I'm no weapons expert, Alarmist, so what is that thing? Obviously it explodes, but ...
The Alarmist
Friday - August 16th 2024 9:34AM MST
PS
When your doctor asks if you have a gun in your home, you reply, “No,. I have a flamethrower. Its a much more pleasurable way to give unwanted strangers a warm welcome.”
And this is my doorbell....
https://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/fcd6525c23f19b15.png
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When your doctor asks if you have a gun in your home, you reply, “No,. I have a flamethrower. Its a much more pleasurable way to give unwanted strangers a warm welcome.”
And this is my doorbell....
https://coldfury.com/WRSA/WRSA-WP/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/fcd6525c23f19b15.png
🕉
Adam Smith
Friday - August 16th 2024 8:28AM MST
PS: Good morning, frens!
Unfortunately, I have not found any 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 guns that I forgot I had or forgot I bought.
Sounds fun though. A little like Christmas! ☮️
Unfortunately, I have not found any 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑎 guns that I forgot I had or forgot I bought.
Sounds fun though. A little like Christmas! ☮️
Moderator
Friday - August 16th 2024 5:23AM MST
PS: You're probably right, Alarmist, as with the rest of the survey, but for a different reason.
Right, that's what the rest of the question was about, M. I was thinking in terms of just 1 house, in which case the answer is more worrisome, for somebody...
Yes, I agree with you on the way bureaucracies work.
Right, that's what the rest of the question was about, M. I was thinking in terms of just 1 house, in which case the answer is more worrisome, for somebody...
Yes, I agree with you on the way bureaucracies work.
M
Friday - August 16th 2024 3:38AM MST
PS
The writer for the survey probably thought to cover the separated/divorced parents. Or the ones where the single mom has four kids from four different guys.
"Which one has a gun? Probably all of them, but who knows?"
The survey is from the bureaucrats. The point of bureaucracy when you're a manager is to get more things that you say you do, so you get more people who report to you, and more budget.
The medical government types (CDC in this case, though there's likely about 10 different agencies) thought they had disease under control. So they thought they'd have to branch out into gun control and fat control and...
The writer for the survey probably thought to cover the separated/divorced parents. Or the ones where the single mom has four kids from four different guys.
"Which one has a gun? Probably all of them, but who knows?"
The survey is from the bureaucrats. The point of bureaucracy when you're a manager is to get more things that you say you do, so you get more people who report to you, and more budget.
The medical government types (CDC in this case, though there's likely about 10 different agencies) thought they had disease under control. So they thought they'd have to branch out into gun control and fat control and...
The Alarmist
Friday - August 16th 2024 3:36AM MST
PS
Trick question: the answer is always ‘NO.’
Trick question: the answer is always ‘NO.’
Mrs. Smith wants a flamethrower for home defense...
https://throwflame.com/
I want one just for fun! ☮️