This Question Could Save Your Life, But Doctors Don't Ask It

Another anti-gun propaganda article from the Huffington Post. (and for some of you YES, this could be considered click-bait)

Even if you agree with the anti-gun movement, how as a member of the military can you justify the following statement - "In the event a doctor doesn't have time to ask every patient about gun ownership, they should at least screen high-risk patients, such as children and people who are at an increased risk for suicide or violence.

For those patients, the new paper provides a rubric of responses, ranging from critical intervention for patients who are at acute risk for violence to themselves or others to counseling lower- but still at-risk patients, such as middle-aged white men, young African-American men and parents of children, about safe firearm storage."
Where do they have the right to classify the following groups as "at-risk patients" - middle-aged white men, young African-American men and parents of children?


Does your medical doctor counsel you about firearm safety, seatbealt or auto safety?
Can someone explain to me how owning either a firearm or an automobile is a personal health issue?
Can anyone explain to me what are "clinical efforts to prevent firearm-related injuries?"
How many medical doctors are qualified to teach "firearm safety?" How many medical doctors provide safety advice about a consumer product, other than medicine?
The article references the Florida "Docs vs. Glocks" lawsuit in which one of the issues was the advice or counsel of the American Association of Pediatrics urges/recommends that parents remove guns from the home. (I do believe that the referencing association should have been the American Academy of Pediatrics.) "According to the AAP, the safest home for children and teens is one without guns." (AAP, 2012)