(from sideshow.com) DRGO member Mark Hamill, MD recently let us know about his team’s newly published paper on how firearm sales across the states correlate with crime and murder. (Short version—they don’t.) Specifically, “Legal Firearm Sales at State Level and Rates of Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Homicides” will be published in the January 2023 edition of the Journal of Surgical Research. It should be available online through November. Dr. Hamill is an associate professor of surge...

(from zionsecurity.com) The September 27 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association contains a dozen or so articles discussing deaths associated with firearm use. Anti-Second Amendment bias is clearly present. The cover pictures a semi-automatic pistol and some bullets; they missed an opportunity to show a Minuteman fighting for his country. A piece by Rita Rubin, MA is titled, “Examining The Impact of Firearm Safety Laws on Suicides.” In the first sentence, the author talks...

[Ed: This is the text of Dr. Young's presentation to the Second Amendment Foundation's 2022 Gun Rights Policy Conference October 2, 2022. The video is posted here, beginning at 1:46:45.] We need to be concerned about ALL violence, not just with firearms because guns are NOT the issue.  Gun owners and those with mental illness are stigmatized by the ignorant. We must challenge the perception that either guns or mental illness are primary problems, while doing everything we can to pr...

[Ed: This was first published on GOPUSA July 21. Slightly edited for DRGO.] . A concerned citizen in South Carolina brought to my attention that Lee Turner, a former Democrat congressional candidate for South Carolina District 04, is claiming as truth the following statistics and justification for a renewed “Assault Weapons Ban.” “After Bill Clinton banned assault weapons in 1994, mass shooting deaths dropped by 43%. After the Republican Congress let the ban expire in 2004, they sh...

(from buckeyefirearm.org) [Ed: DRGO's Dr. John Edeen delivered this testimony on June 23 to the Texas legislature's Committee on Homeland Security and Public Safety strongly advocating effective school protection of our children, which is DRGO's long-held position.] Thank you, Chairman White, for inviting me to give my testimony today. My name is John Edeen, MD.  I am a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who has practiced in San Antonio for almost 25 years. I am a Navy veteran and a firea...

While dining at El Sombrero this evening I was surprised to see a Public Service Announcement on the TV displaying the character Smokey the Bear with the caption: “Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires”.  I recall the impact that ad had on me as a child in my long-past and misspent youth.  The PSA startled me because El Sombrero is 900 miles south of the Texas border.  I wasn’t expecting to see him here.  The shock piqued my inner adman. It struck me that that m...

(from jwecc.com) [Ed: We are delighted to welcome new author Dr. Bruce Noonan, who acts on his conviction that people deserve to worship in sanctity securely.] Our institutions, formerly relatively safe, are under attack.  School shootings; a recent murder attempt against a sitting Supreme Court Justice; and attacks on places of worship appear in the news in alarming numbers.  The disgruntled, the mentally ill, or politically motivated individuals transform into would-be assass...