Gun shy or just stupid?

This story was a potential Knucklehead winner till another candidate came along. A woman in Nova Scotia Canada isn't getting home health care because her husband left a gun out at their home. One he is legally entitled to. Northwood Home Health Care and the Health minister should be questioning whether this health worker should be doing this job, not whether Ms. Bonner should continue to get visits. Then PC idiots seem to rule in this province of Canada. Click here for more proof.

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The Health Department and Northwood home care will review the suspension of home support to an Upper Sackville woman with multiple sclerosis whose husband left a rifle outside a gun cabinet during a worker’s visit.

But Health Minister Chris d’Entremont said Tuesday he agreed with the decision.

"It’s an unfortunate situation but really the safety of . . . employees is the utmost piece," he said after a news conference at the Northwood Centre in Halifax. "I support the decision to suspend the care."

On Monday, Susan Bonner told CTV she’d been without home support for a month since a worker spotted a rifle her husband had forgotten to lock in a gun cabinet in their home. The gun is registered and had a trigger lock on at the time.

A Northwood spokesman said the company would reassess the woman for home care if the guns were removed from the home.

Health Department spokeswoman Michelle Lucas said the joint review will look at whether proper procedures were followed in this case and if anything should be done differently in future cases.

Mr. d’Entremont said he hoped there would be a resolution for the woman.

Meanwhile, a cabinet colleague of Mr. d’Entremont’s questioned the decision to cut off the woman’s service.

Barry Barnet, the MLA for Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville, said Ms. Bonner needs the service and should get it.

"I’ve known Ms. Bonner for all of my life and she is a very good person," Mr. Barnet, the minister of health promotion and protection, told reporters before cabinet Tuesday. "She has managed for a long time on her own but now is at a point where she does need the help and I think she should get that help."

Mr. Barnet said he doesn’t think the workers were at risk, especially as the gun had a safety lock on it.