“If we have a client come in and they’re married and they say that they’re going to harm their spouse, if this bill were to pass, we’re not allowed to ask, ‘Do you have firearms in the home?'” she told News 2. “If they are suicidal, we’re not allowed to ask questions about firearms. If we’re working with a teenager and they begin to talk about feelings of wanting to take things out on other people in the school and making threats, we can’t ask about firearms. It severely limits our ability to conduct our fiduciary duties of duty to warn.”

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