Are you a Vet?

[Coldwater]

Are you a Vet? Read This.




This was sent to me by a vet, and he asked that I send it along to everyone.



I have never heard of this before, but I it is important enough to pass along.

I had a doctors appointment at the local VA clinic yesterday, and something very interesting happened. While going through triage before seeing the doctor, I was asked at the end of the exam, three questions.

(1. Did I feel stressed?)
(2. Did I feel threatened?)
(3. Did I feel like doing harm to someone?)

The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security.

I am a Viet Nam vet and 15 year cc permit holder.


The Obama administration has gone on record as considering veterans and gun owners as potential terrorists. Looks like they're also making secret moves against us. If you are a veteran, you've been warned. Now, please pass this on to others.

 

[Mandolin]

Realy? sounds like an urban ledgend to me. Could you post anything to confirm this?

 

[bigfatdave]

Sounds like E-Mail glurge to me.

The VA, while they are often incompetent and irritating are not a vast conspiracy to push any particular agenda.

 

[JustinL]

I am a physician who does not work at a VA and I have never heard of such a thing. I would imagine that it would violate HIPPA.

 

[mljdeckard]

^^Exactly what he said. The whole idea of doctor-patient privilige is to prevent this kind of anxiety. Patients must be willing to be honest with their doctors and not worry about administrative BS that might result.

There are certain things you may say to an active-duty doctor that might affect your security clearance, but I've never heard of it coming from the VA. I think it's some geek at the VA misunderstanding RUMINT and spreading it as policy. BAD ETHICS.

 

[possum]

recently i went into get a physical to attend pathfinder school, and they asked me similar wierd questions, not the exact but similar.

 

[CoRoMo]

The nurse then informed me... I would have lost my concealed carry permit...

Am I the only one who wonders how the nurse knew the vet had a CCP? That screams 'fictitious' to me.
A framed and incomplete story = B.S.

 

[TexasRifleman]

This is all such complete horse stuff.

The OP is posting a few bits and pieces from various things that have happened over the last few years trying to make a real story out of this.

If anyone is in the mood I'll list where all this comes from but the short version is....


BS

 

[calaverasslim]

This last spring, o bum ah floated an idea that if a vet had PTSD, he/she would be denied the legal right to own guns. I saw it on the news and it was quickly hushed up and I never heard anything more about it.

I wonder

 

[jcwit]

I've been going to the V.A. for years and the only anti gun I've noticed is the "no firearms" sign at the door. But then it is Government property and it is a hosiptal.

I have been asked if I was depressed, but then I've been asked that by my counselor during cancer treatment, at a cilivan hospital. And I do realize there is a problem with depression in regards to vet's.

Final thought BS

 

[nalioth]

This is a long lived spam campaign . .


PLEASE, PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD email that asks you to.

Any email that asks you to "forward it to all your friends" is gonna be 99% spam.

 

[bigfatdave]

Any email that asks you to "forward it to all your friends" is gonna be 99% spam.

I don't understand why so many people don't get this concept ... and I REALLY don't understand why someone would join a forum just to re-start one of these idiotic urban legends.

Coldwater, please feel free to join us in a rational, fact-based discussion, but could you not repost anything you get in a mass E-Mailing from here out?

 

[Tim the student]

Nice drive by filled with crap.

 

[bdickens]

*sniff* *sniff* Do you smell that?

 

[Art Eatman]

Ismellalock.