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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
and I don't believe that crompsin or I were bringing gun control up as an issue. What we DID bring up though, is the premise that professions like doctors and insurance companies are asking questions about gun ownership and basing their rates or medical diagnosis on that answer. It is just another form of societal manipulation through intimidation. Which is the same thought process as those who base higher taxes on disliked activities.
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Despite the actuarially indisputable fact that gun owners are vastly more likely than non-gun-owners to be involved in gun-related injury?
I'm not personally pro- or anti-gun, but the fact is, if I'm an insurance company and I want to know what level of risk I'm taking on your policy, I want to know your likelihood of getting your head blown off and one way of getting at that is to determine your gun ownership. It's not politics or some tin-hat "societal manipulation": it's BUSINESS. You know, that thing you think is GOOD and will SAVE US?
I'm talking about insurance companies here. I don't know anything about the "doctors basing their diagnosis" part of your post. That sounds like a response to some anecdote I haven't heard.