By Timothy Wheeler, MD The Newtown school mass shooting has awakened the medical establishment’s long-dormant urges to order our lives in areas it knows nothing about.  Now the American College of Physicians (ACP) is prescribing drastic measures against gun owners.  If prescribing outside of a doctor’s area of competence is malpractice, then the editors of the ACP journal the Annals of Internal Medicine are guilty. In a New Year’s Day editorial, (an earlier version is linked here) the Anna...

By Timothy Wheeler, MD In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school mass shooting, many have called for new restrictions on gun owners.  The blood at Sandy Hook Elementary School wasn’t dry before mainstream media pundits, scheming politicians, and career gun control advocates began heaping condemnation and slander on American gun owners.  Blaming innocent gun owners for the murderous actions of a few high-profile mass shooters is natural to them, since they blame guns for crime, rather than ...