I take the opposite approach: Doctors are being told to ask these questions because their profession has as a whole has been indoctrinated into the anti-gun camp. If we all shut up and say nothing, nothing changes. If we all speak up and say "Yes, we own guns, and we care about safety", it's harder for doctors to ignore the statistics: that child gun accidents are an extreme rarity and responsible gun ownership isn't a statistically significant factor in child safety. That doesn't mean you have to give a detailed analysis of every minor safety measure to doc, but at least give him something short and truthful: Yes, we're a gun-owning household, and yes, we take care to ensure the environment is safe for children. Maybe if you know the doc well (and you should know your childrens' doc well) and you know he's not a crazy anti-gun nut, you might even discuss the details in depth with him and learn something you didn't know that might help you to be safer. That is their ultimate goal, even if they're sometimes misguided in accomplishing it: to make children's lives safer.
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