By Timothy Wheeler, MD The public health assault on gun owners is nothing new. The talking points delivered on cue by today’s public health gun prohibitionists are taken from the pioneers, though anti-gunners have now learned to soften them in deference to a public that increasingly supports the civil right of gun ownership. This medical journal article was written in 1980 by Lester Adelson, MD, an academic medical examiner. At the time, violent urban crime was taking off and gun prohi...

By Robert B Young, MD How do you help someone like Eddie Ray Routh, a troubled Marine veteran? Former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield tried and it cost them their lives. Could it have been different? Almost all of us know that on February 2, 2013, Kyle and Littlefield took Routh to a shooting range hoping to give him some natural diversion from his service related psychological problems, as they had many times before for other stressed veterans. Routh shot...

With the shootings of two doctors over the past year and the risk of violence against healthcare workers accounting for 10% of workplace violence, so-called gun free zones in hospitals make no sense. Would you rather have the very same people that you trust to provide healthcare to be able to protect you and your family or allow the psychopathic murderer to be the only one who is armed? Dr. Sean Brodale has begun the effort to reverse the policy in his hospital built on the flawed prem...

By Timothy Wheeler, MD The experience of learning to be a surgeon confers knowledge not only of arteries, nerves, and bones, but of human nature. In every big-city teaching hospital, every surgical intern quickly becomes familiar with what is universally called the Knife and Gun Club—frequent habitués of the emergency department’s trauma bay who land there through gunshot wounds, stab wounds, and beatings. Career criminals frequently inflict injuries on one another in the course of dru...