A new bill up on Beacon Hill was talked about Tuesday where Boston Health and Human Services Chief Marty Martinez told the Joint Committee on Public Health that "training medical providers to ask patients about firearm ownership and storage will save lives and promote better safety practices." This newly proposed bill has drawn a lot of criticism from gun activists who think this infringes on their 2nd amendment rights as well as their right to privacy. Supporters of the bill say that the conversations medical professionals will have with their patients would be "non-judgmental". Even so, say you're a depressed patient who so happens to live under the same roof as a legal gun owner or better yet a law enforcement professional who stores it safely...then what? They can't take the gun away from the legal gun owner, it's his/her right to have that gun. Unless they do somehow remove the gun due to no fault of the owner's and that's why critics of the bill are concerned because it is a violation of their second amendment rights...
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