[Ed: We present Part 2 of Dr. Brown's detailed advice for objective reporting on the enormous, tragic, evil, shameful epidemic of guns killing and injuring so many millions of Americans. We would add that he is a tenured professor of Advocacy Journalism at the Bloomberg College of Liberal Arts, if that were true. See Part 1 here.] The Political Debate The Back Story The ongoing public debate about the role of guns and gun laws in society has remained at a high level since the 1960's. Al...

[Ed: Dr. Brown has long been penning serious articles on serious subjects for DRGO. Since we pride ourselves on our journalistic acumen and ethics, we thought it worth sharing the principles followed by so many of our enlightened colleagues in mainstream media. Part 2 will follow.]  Author's note: Much has changed since the original edition of The Journalist's Guide to Gun Violence Coverage was published in the first year of this century. This edition updates the basic principles and mak...

In less than 48 hours last week we saw the beginning of the end for gun control.  They were very different events, and will affect the right to keep and bear arms in very different ways, through very different routes. But for all their differences, together they may definitively mark the moment when unlawful infringement of the right to keep and bear arms became predictably impossible.  (more…)

In what has become an annual Independence Day tradition, this year’s class of Publius Fellows headed from the Claremont Institute to the West End Gun Club in the San Gabriel Mountain foothills for a day of shooting, learning about the Second Amendment, and consuming mass quantities of barbecue. So what is a Publius Fellow, you ask?  The Publius Fellowship is one of four educational programs offered by the Claremont Institute to up-and-coming young conservatives with an intellectual bent. ...

[Ed: Here is "the rest of the story", concluding Dr. Faria's wide-ranging piece originally published in Surgical Neurology International in 2012. See out preceding I and II for our sequential excerpts; the full version is at HaciendaPub.com. Please see the original for the author’s references.] SUICIDE, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTINGS, CHILDREN AND GUNS (more…)

[Ed: Here is an excerpt from Part II of the editorial contributor Manuel Faria, MD, published in Surgical Neurology International in 2012. Our shortened Part I is here; the full version is at HaciendaPub.com. The rest (our Part III)will follow. Please see the originals for the author’s references.] In his celebrated book, The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, author and gun rights attorney, David Kopel, makes the point that disparate countries such as Japan and Switzerland have low c...

[Ed: To recognize America's Independence Day, we are posting a shortened version of an editorial contributor Manuel Faria, MD first published in Surgical Neurology International in 2012, still available at HaciendaPub.com. We highly recommend the full version there, which includes examples from other countries of the losses that have come from their minimizing the individual right to own firearms as well as the author's copious references. See Part II and Part III following.] (more…)