(from NRA.org) [DRGO's founding director, Tim Wheeler, MD, wrote this for NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine, first posted February 20 but also in the most recent print issue.] Academic medical organizations have traditionally resisted the decades-long loosening of American gun-control laws. Since at least the 1980s, they have been uniformly hostile to the very idea of gun ownership. They take this position despite the fact that this freedom is enshrined in our history and in the U.S. C...

(from pngmart.com) The authors of the latest creative anti-shooting attack begin their pieceBullets as Pathogens: The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches with “Guns don’t kill people. Bullets do.” Thus, they show themselves to be advanced thinkers. Right away, they inform readers that they are “gun violence researchers”, labeling themselves as zealots. The authors state that 1.1 million firearm related death occurred between 1990 and 2021. By looking at a span of years, rather th...

(from zigya.com) The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, representing more than 13,000 Ear, Nose and Throat physicians, issued its formal policy statement on November 18 supporting the use of suppressors for the prevention of hearing loss from firearms. Earlier this year, seven Academy members led by Dr. Timothy Wheeler, founder of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (www.DRGO.us), submitted a thoroughly researched and referenced proposal documenting the critical r...

(from washingtonpost.com) [Ed: We have published this piece annually since 2015 for Bill of Rights Day on December 15. The  Bill’s Second Amendment is the reason for our being, in more ways than one.] Today we all should be jubilantly celebrating the 230th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the original 10 amendments to the United States’ federal constitution. Remarkably, it slips by relatively unremarked. Yet our Bill of Rights may actually be the most signi...

[Ed: This came from SCOPE-NY and seems well worthwhile to close Thanksgiving weekend. As it is by an anonymous author, the liberty of a few minor edits were taken for publication here.] We won the lottery when we were born in the United States of America.  We enjoy freedoms and rights and opportunities that no one else in history has enjoyed. It’s more than appropriate that Americans take a day to say thanks for that win. The Bible talks about birthrights and Thomas Jefferso...

Drs. Brodale & Edeen at left, Wanamaker at right. The 39th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), was held on Sept. 27-29 at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley. The theme of this year’s event was “Empower, Educate and Defend!”  The conference was attended by hundreds of gun rights advocates and activists, and featured an impressive roster of leaders in th...

(from gunssavelife.com) The 39th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, co-hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), was held on Sept. 27-29 at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley. The theme of this year’s event was “Empower, Educate and Defend!”  The conference was attended by hundreds of gun rights advocates and activists, and featured an impressive roster of leaders in the Second Amendment movemen...

(from motherjones.com) A recent publication in the American Medical Association's JAMA Network Open, "Household Firearm Ownership and Firearm Mortality", purports to show a relationship between a firearm being present in a household and suicide involving a firearm. To their credit, the authors note other data suggesting that firearm ownership is unrelated to violence involving a gun, and indeed firearm ownership may reduce the homicide rate. The JAMA report has a number of limitations, of...