Here's a scary article about anti gun Doctors!

[WILLIAM A FARLEY Jr.]

WHO OR WHAT THIS DOCTOR IS PROBING THE LITTLE GIRL FAMILY...HE HAVE SOME TPYE OF BEEF ABOT PARENT WHO LOCK UP THERE
GUNS IN A SAFE PLACE. QUESTION...WE SHOULD PUT THIS DOCTOR WHERE HE BELONGS.

[MikeBjerum]

Mandatory reporting laws take away a lot of our privacy.  Many of those that are mandatory reporters are either required by law, told by their employers or professional organizations, or just on their own decide that they are going to save the world by learning as much as possible about our private family lives as possible.  The biggest problem I have with this is that when they put their understanding of what someone says into action it is darn near impossible to fix the errors and put your life back.

A prime example came when we were 4-H adult leaders.  Some one of position asked our child if we had a gun in the home - our child laughed and jokingly made a comment about my stash.  After the shock wore off they asked if all guns had locks or were in a safe - response was no.  Next question was about a safe - and the truthful answer was that there were no guns in the safe.  Pretty soon I am receiving letters and phone calls and not allowed to work with the children until things are rectified, and we will not be able to lead activities in our home or on our property ever again.

The rest of the story (sorry Paul Harvey) -

My gun safe is in a room and full of ammo and misc. other items, but no guns.  I own a bunch of gun locks, but I very seldom use them.  My guns are all, when not in use, in a locked gun room to which I have the only key (used to think my wife should have a key, but once I taught her how to shoot and she was good at it I figured my total control of the locks is the best life insurance I've got).

Local leaders quickly cleared us to do anything with the program, but the state leaders still have a mark by my name.

All I need is the neighbor kid tell the doctor or someone at school about our Daisy laser trainer with the video by telling them about me teaching him how to shoot "his" rifle in the house, and last night he shot the tv.

Not sure if I should send all my spare cash to NRA to help with the 2008 election, or if I should invest in anything that goes bang before we can't buy them anymore.