Texas Police Chief Asked To Leave Doctor’s Office Because Of His Gun

[RugersGR8]

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Texas Police Chief Asked To Leave Doctor’s Office Because Of His Gun
Posted at 4:52 pm on August 14, 2017 by Jessie Johnson

..."Dupuis said she asked him to take his gun out to his car. The 35-year law enforcement veteran, who never has had an accidental discharge, refused to disarm himself, reiterating that he is a police officer.

“It’s just bad,” Dupuis said. “My badge is clearly displayed. I have my lanyard on with ‘police’ on my ID card hanging around my neck. I had handcuffs. The lobby was full of people, and they asked me to leave because of who I am.”...

 

[D. Hargrove]

Just another case of ignorance, simple ignorance. Gonna take a real butt whooping before some folks realize their poo does stink.

 

[Pokinfun]

I would say that the poorly educated low wage receptionist merely understood the rules that she is suppose to ask people that are armed to take them to their car. I seriously doubt she was going to risk her job or was setting policy for the office.

 

[Jack T.]

Their office, their rules.

And yet he wanted super-special treatment.

 

[deerwhacker444]

News video says he talked to the Dr. In Charge after talking to the receptionist and got the same brush off..

I guess no means NO..

 

[RugersGR8]

Just found this follow-up story:

https://www.nraila.org/articles/201...nhospitable-reception-at-texas-medical-clinic
First, Carry No Gun: Police Chief Gets Inhospitable Reception at Texas Medical Clinic
FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 2017

We recently reported on claims that “gun safety advocates” in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services have given a U.S. Marine Corps. veteran an untenable choice: custody of his grandson or his constitutional right to possess a loaded firearm. Now, from Texas – of all places – comes a similar tale of a police chief who was told he could receive medical care from a Woodlands ear, nose & throat clinic … but only if he took off his duty sidearm and left it outside the building.

Conroe Police Department Chief Philip Dupuis made it clear, moreover, that this was not an innocent case of mistaken identity. “My badge is clearly displayed,” he told the Washington Times of the incident. “I have my lanyard on with ‘police’ on my ID card hanging around my neck. I had handcuffs.”

Nevertheless, the receptionist at Texas Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists (Texas E.N.T.) told him in front of a lobby full of other people he would not be treated unless he complied with the practice’s “no-gun” policy. “I have never been so embarrassed … in my 35 years of law enforcement,” Dupuis noted in a Facebook postabout the incident.

Chief Dupuis went on to state that he took up the matter with officer managers at two separate locations of Texas E.N.T., including the one where his usual doctor normally practices. Their responses, he said, were unsatisfactory.

Later, however, the practice’s business manager called the chief to personally apologize. “Our company values law enforcement officers and first responders for their selfless service and will serve them and our communities with the utmost respect,” a clinic representative told the Times.

The company also apologized and disavowed the incident on its own Facebook page:

Texas Ear, Nose & Throat Specialists will continue to treat armed law enforcement officers who have the appropriate identification. Again, we sincerely apologize to Chief Dupuis for the situation and the embarrassment he may have felt. We will make every effort to ensure this does not happen again in any of our locations.

Whether any Texas E.N.T. employees were disciplined in connection with the matter, however, is unclear. Chief Dupuis also said he has not heard from the Texas E.N.T. doctor who usually treats him.

Private businesses are generally entitled to determine for themselves the rules that govern the carrying or possession of firearms on their premises, just as gun owners are free to determine the businesses they will (and will not) support. Most reasonable people can live with that arrangement.

But it’s hard to divorce what happened to Chief Dupuis from the larger current of the medical profession’sinstitutional (and unscientific) bias against firearms and their owners and the animosity that has increasingly greeted police personnel at various private businesses. Neither phenomenon is reasonable or justified.

Let’s be clear: Anti-gun extremists have reached the point where they are not only detached from legitimate concerns about public safety or “guns in the wrong hands” but simply want anyone with a gun (no matter who or what the reason) to know they have no place in the world they wish to create. Theirs is not a creed of “live and let live.” It is one of dogmatic and reflexive bigotry.

This explains why people like Doris Greggs White – who identifies herself as a “healthcare professional” – continue to support the way Chief Dupuis was originally treated. Responding to Texas E.N.T.’s apologetic Facebook post, Greggs White wrote:

I feel you had no reason to apologize to this crybaby cop. he and his ilk have slandered you. you have every right to protect your staff and other patients. they can only whine about blue lives mattering although medical staff are under increasingly more frequent and severe attacks by patients and their [angry] families. he claims to have never been more [angry] in his career-over this?! if he's that unstable he should not be armed and should be banned from your facility.

Their words and their actions speak for themselves.


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[Glocktogo]

So the next time they call the police to respond when someone is threatening or attacking them, just have the dispatcher remind them to step off property to meet responding officers. Because you know, policy...

 

[Annie]

Ok, I'm a staunch 2A supporter but his comment that he had never been so embarrassed in his 35 years of law enforcement tells me he was less worried about safety and more worried about the beating his ego took.

I carry everywhere. So does the old man, even the doctor's office. But nobody at the doctor's office knows.

I'm as staunch a supporter of law enforcement as anyone on this board. However, it would appear to me that someone needs to schedule their doctor's appointments when they are off-duty. Just saying.