FLORIDA LAW PROHIBITING DOCTORS FROM ASKING GUN QUESTIONS BRINGS LAWSUIT

By John Velleco
June 8, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

A bill banning Florida physicians from asking patients about gun ownership, signed into law last week by Governor Rick Scott (R), has brought out more than the typical hue and cry from the anti-self defense crowd.

On Monday, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, along with the Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American College of Physicians, filed a lawsuit seeking to throw out the new law.

While claiming the new law violates doctors’ First Amendment rights, the lawsuit hardly conceals its bias against gun rights.

“By severely restricting such speech and the ability of physicians to practice such preventative medicine, the Florida statute could result in grievous harm to children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly,â€