Also, someone who makes a pit thread about something like this certainly pings my radar on the dumb gun owner list.
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I concur.
And also, why we can’t have the same, right here on the SDMB? 
It’s kind of mind-boggling to me that someone would assume that a doctor giving a pamphlet about gun safety must necessarily be “anti-gun”. I could very easily imagine that someone who is ardently pro-gun would want families to be as safe as possible with their gun handling and storage to prevent accidents.
Even if the pamphlet also contains a sentence stating that the easiest way to prevent gun accidents with kids is not to have guns in the home, that’s just a fact. A good analogy would be abstince-only education. Obviously it’s true that the most reliable and easiest way to prevent STDs and unwanted pregnancy is to not have sex. But does that necessarily mean that any safe sex pamphlet that even mentions abstinence as a possibility is totally “anti-sex in all circumstances?”
OMG!!! They suggested that one way to to not get chlamydia is to not have sex (along with being selective about choosing partners, using condoms, getting screenings tests, etc…) - those fascist thug doctors want to control our sex lives and they don’t want anyone to ever have sex again and they are dooming the human race to extinction!!!1!1!!
So if they had asked about guns and pools, and given you safety information about both, would you have been grateful for both those things? This is really a pit thread about “Why doesn’t my pediatrician care about my kid drowning?” Because if so, I honestly think you should bring it up with him and be like “I really wish you would talk to parents about this!”
I’m a childfree female who has been single for most of my life. I’ve never been asked if I feel safe in my home or about guns, but most of my doctors seem really interested in my sex life.
Some of the literature I’ve received have advised that abstinence is the only 100% reliable method of avoiding STD’s and getting pregnant. I never thought to get offended about it, maybe I’m just too easy going.
I’m thinking if the OP really gave a damn about child safety, he’d get off the internet and work to free his homeland from the insidious onslaught of evil pools. He really fears the freaking pools.
OMG, I was thinking the same thing!
FINALLY, someone is standing up to the hideous swimming pools that are terrorizing our nation! Hopefully, there is a group of swimming pool survivors out there who are handing out the SDMB as a resource or something. I’d hate to think that all the SP Traumatized posters on this board are representative of the nation as a whole. That would be just scary.
And, remember… ponds are just swimming pools in disguise!
I remember watching Lonesome Dove when it got to the part where they were crossing the Brazos River and the young Irish kid falls into a water moccasin orgy and gets killed.
So I called my Mom and pointed out that I went fishing on the Brazos about ten thousand times as a kid, and nobody thought to warn me about horny vipers. Turns out I was abandoned by wolves and nobody really liked me very much.
But we didn’t have a pediatrician. We had a doctor. Dr. Collins, drove a second hand car and made house calls.
My husband and I both see doctors at a campus of the Cleveland Clinic. We are both asked this question at every appointment.
I was asked whether my husband beats me when I checked into the hospital to have a baby. I can’t remember my personal doctor ever asking.
No one asked with the second baby, and for that one, I was sporting bruises that looked like someone had taken an axe handle to the baby bump. (I was giving myself heparin shots, and they caused massive bruising in my stomach area. But I got the same bruises when the nurses took over giving me the shots when I was hospitalized for a couple of months for that pregnancy.)
Snerk. Me being me, I wouldn’t be surprised if the next time they don’t ask me who I have been beating up. 
OTOH, I am really glad I don’t have kids for yet another reason. If every time I went to the doctor with a kid, they would ask me about basic moron things like bike helmets and gun safety, I’d go nuts!
I think I speak for many here when I say how pleased we are such a grim prospect has been avoided.
That I’m not beating people up routinely?
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=686338
Just a link to the other Pit Thread that is related to this one…
It’s a shame, but this is why they take the 60 seconds to ask the question and remind people the gun safety question, because every one of these mishaps that can be prevented is worth plenty of other complaining parents.
Why the hostility?
All you had to do is ask. You could even ask nicely.
Damuri Ajashi and others already answered with a good explanation and included cites so consider yourselves informed.
Sheesh.
Absolutely true. Which is why our pediatrician knows what and how many pets we have, for instance, and discussed bathing safety as regards our newborn son at his first post-hospital visit.
What’s the big deal here?
The problem is that pets and bathtubs are not crucial elements of anyone’s sense of self.
Astute.
We should keep an eye on them bathtubs. They can grow up into Killer Pools!
Guns might be more dangerous in a household where one of the adults is eager to fly off the handle at small provocations…