Neal Boortz
Friday, March 23, 2001

It's not just the police chiefs and school administrators who are snooping into our cabinets and nightstand drawers.

We have a group out there – representing 600,000 doctors – called Doctors Against Handgun Injury. They are implementing a program whereby they will be asking their patients whether or not they have a gun in the home. This group says they are nonpolitical, yet they are petitioning Congress for various gun-control measures. That's nonpolitical?

As the government gets more and more involved in our medical care system, these doctors are going to become nothing less than government agents. You’ve read about Clinton's new rules on medical privacy? (See Well, every question your doctor asks you, and every answer you provide, becomes part of your medical record – that means part of government records.

School Survey? Or Government Spying?

This story is from Guthrie, Oklahoma. The police chief of Guthrie has obtained a $5,000 federal grant to administer a questionnaire to Guthrie school kids. The questionnaire was created by the Federal Office of Juvenile Justice. Is the survey about school? No. It's about the students' private at-home life. One of the questions is "Do you have any type of health insurance?" There are 68 more questions like it – including "Is there a gun in your house? "

What we have here is the government seeking information from your children about their lives at home. The government knows better (at this point) than to send questionnaires to parents asking if there is a gun in the house. So ... just ask the kids.

The job of these schools is to educate – to teach, not to snoop. The Guthrie police chief needs a little lecture on our Constitution.

A Good Thing This Man Didn't Listen to His Doctor

Now – after the school survey and the doctor's survey, we take you to Cape Coral, Florida. Richard Peppers woke up in the middle of the night. He heard something. He thought his neighbor was playing the television too loud.

He stepped out the front door of his home and heard screaming. His neighbor was yelling, "Help me, I'm being raped. Somebody's trying to kill me."

Peppers ran back into his house, grabbed his gun, and headed out the door to the sound of the screams. He found an intruder attacking his neighbor. She was naked. He was holding her hair with one hand while beating her with the other. At the sight of Peppers and his gun the intruder fled, to be caught later by police K-9 units.

The victim was beat so badly that police said her face looked like hamburger meat.

Peppers had a gun. The gun was not locked away. The gun was loaded. There was no trigger lock. His neighbor is alive. I'm sure this makes the gun-grabbing liberals mad as hell.

Neal Boortz is the hugely popular talk show host.

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