Tim Wheeler, MD, a since retired southern California surgeon, launched DRGO in 1994 and served as its Director through 2016. Now a nationwide network, DRGO unites physicians and other health professionals who support the safe and lawful use of firearms.
This is an index of Dr. Wheeler’s articles published in various media outlets.
Miami Herald
- Yes, It’s a Potent Weapon (originally “Fly the Safer Skies”) 6/23/2002
- Firearms Are Not a Disease 9/28/1995
National Review:
- The Corner: The Wickedness Inside All of Us? 12/04/2012
- The Ancient Right 6/30/2008
- One for the Second 11/21/2007
- There’s A Reason They Choose Schools 10/11/2007
- Assault-Weapons Ban, R.I.P. 9/13/2004
- Docs Gun For a Ban 6/23/2004
- Wilmette Injustice 1/14/2004
- A Light Goes On At The CDC 10/22/2003
- Litigation Without Justification Is Tyranny 7/24/2003
Orange County (California) Register
- The Lawless Court Strikes Again 12/16/2002
- Blaming Guns and Media Violence Misses the Point 4/25/1999
Riverside (California) Press Enterprise:
- Californians Denied Human Right to Self Defense 12/8/2015
- Loosen the Rules for Carrying Guns 12/2/2005
San Diego Union Tribune:
- Yet Another War Against Gun Owners 10/2/1998
- The Lynch Mob’s Shaming of American Gun Owners 5/26/26, 1999 (also published under a different title in the Orange County (CA) Register on 10/30/1999)
- Thwarting the Politicians’ Great Gun Grab 2/8/2000 (also published under a different title in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on 2/6/2000)
- Life and Death in the City 5/31/2000 (also published under a different title in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune on 6/2/2000)
- The Natural Right of Self Defense Revisited 3/2/2001
- A Lesson for Urban Centers on Concealed Arms Laws 1/16/2002 (also published under a different title in the Downeast Coastal Press (Cutler, Maine) on 12/11/2001)
- America’s 80 Million Potential Snipers 10/20/2002
- The Great Leap Backward in Gun Law 12/13/2002
- Gun Laws as a Public Health Issue 4/7/2008
TheGunMag:
- Gun Control Playbook—If The Facts Aren’t On Your Side, Wave A Bloody Shirt 8/12/2013
- HIPAA And NICS: Balancing Two Necessary Evils 6/6/2013
- Harvard Study Shows No Effect Of Firearm Laws On Gun Deaths 3/13/2013
- The American College Of Physicians Doesn’t Know American Gun Owners 1/4/2013
- Docs Vs. Glocks Law Protects Patients 8/17/2012
Dr. Wheeler’s other articles:
- The Great Experiment of Right to Carry 3/31/2015
- Gun Grabbing Doctors: An Old Public Health Threat Re-emerges 12/5/2011
- The Best Security of a Free State Louisville Herald 10/25/2001
- We Should Arm More Than Pilots on Planes York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record 10/7/2001
- 1st Freedom Interview—Dr. Timothy Wheeler America’s 1st Freedom September 2001
- The Unnatural Death of a Natural Right Pittsburgh Tribune Review 10/8/2000
- Gun Control: Dr. Tim Wheeler, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership Washington Post 3/20/2000
- Boundary Violation: Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office March/April 1999 issue of Medical Sentinel
- Blaming the Guns Washington Times 2/2/1998
- Politics Pushing Anti-Gun Crusade Pasadena (California) Star-News 6/26/1997
Articles co-authored by Dr. Wheeler:
- “Guns Vs Teddy Bears” by Tim Wheeler and Dave Kopel, National Review Online 1/13, 2004
- “This One’s a General” by Dave Kopel and Timothy Wheeler, 8/14/2002 (Originally at National Review Online)
- “Guns and (Character) Assassination” by Dave Kopel and Timothy Wheeler, 12/21/2001 (Originally at National Review Online)
- “Right of Refusal” by Dave Kopel and Timothy Wheeler, MD, 7/5/2001. (Originally at National Review Online)