In 1863 President Lincoln signed a congressional charter creating the National Academy of Sciences.
Now, 150 years later, President Obama is enlisting NAS to implement an item in his January 16 plan to change the lives of America’s 100 million gun owners. Read more…
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Month: April 2013
Dr. Wheeler in National Review Online—The Corner
What Next for Gun Policy?
President Obama was incredulous at the speed of his gun-control agenda’s demise this week. Seemingly still in campaign mode, he posed in the Rose Garden flanked by gun crime victims and denounced the Senate for rejecting all three points of his grand gun control plan. Read more…
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Harvard pediatrician spreads dangerous ‘gun safety’ advice
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Harvard pediatrician spreads dangerous ‘gun safety’ advice
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Lee Williams
Lee’s note: This is the second guest column from Timothy Wheeler, MD, director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), a project of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Floridians are becoming depressingly familiar with pediatricians pushing a gun control agenda, as we talked about last week in connection with Florida’s Docs vs. Glocks law. Another example...
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DRGO Article in NRO: Gun Registration Remains the Third Rail
Gun Registration Remains the Third Rail
By Timothy Wheeler
April 16, 2013 5:31 PM
As the national frenzy of anti-gun sentiment wanes, as it inevitably must, the calculus of legislative concession sets in. The more extreme gun-control proposals in Congress have failed, but there lingers in Congress and perhaps to a lesser degree in public opinion the perceived need to do something to restrict gun ownership. The major players agree that people with a record of criminal violence and t...
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South San Francisco City Council Member Admits Gun Ordinance “More Window Dressing Than Substance”
You read that right. Check the City Council meeting video starting at minute 3:50. Councilmember Mark N. Addiego agrees with the city attorney’s advice to drop a proposed ordinance to ban hollow point ammunition and notify the police of any ammunition purchases of 500 rounds or more. Councilmember Addiego confesses his ignorance of firearms and actually admits that the proposed ordinance is “more window dressing than substance.” We know that politicians often indulge the urge to “do something,”...
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Children’s Defense Fund Joins Gun Prohibitionist Echo Chamber
By Timothy Wheeler, MD
Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman has made a career of blaming America’s gun owners for gang crime. For 20 years she’s hammered away at the same theme—“children” (i.e., youthful gang members) are dying from “gun violence” and it’s all because you and I own guns. She never has bothered to explain how you and I and about 80 million other American gun owners manage to get through each day without shooting someone. Another thing—Edelman has always had ...
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