[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…)

[Ed: These emails document our attempt to build on the relationship we had with MedPage Today after their change of editorship. Judging by the absence of response for well over a month, our relationship has apparently ended. That's too bad, because MedPage Today previously sought and published our views. Sadly, it may now be just another mouthpiece for the radical anti-gun minority position of organized medicine.]     -----Original Message----- From: Robert B Young, M...

[Ed: This is a common-use excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article published in the print edition June 25. Following an introduction, an ER physician from the American Foundation for Firearm Injury Reduction in Medicine replied "YES", then came Dr. Hsieh's corrective. He is a friend, colleague and DRGO member, and we found that his thoughts showed the most clarity. But you are encouraged to read the entire article for the context in which he responded.]   NO: It would undermine...

One of the most hotly debated issues on the Second Amendment is over the right to carry firearms outside the home.  Today, each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia authorizes ordinary citizens to carry a handgun in most public places under one of the following three regimes: Constitutional Carry: 12 states Shall-Issue permit: 30 states and DC May-Issue permit: 8 states (more…)

. . . because we don’t bring them cases they want to hear.  I’m not a Supreme Court watcher, but anybody can play one. The Supreme Court is unique in that it can’t take the initiative.  A party must bring a case to the Court and request certiorari, i.e., that the court agree to hear the appeal.  To be heard, the appellant must present an appealing case, one that the justices want to adjudicate. At least four justices must agree to hear a case.  Four of them are conservative, four are l...

"Poor people own guns. The elite have bodyguards.”  So opines Daniel Greenfield at FrontPage Magazine. Progressive elites imagine that drumming the message of gun control will get out the vote of the traditionally captive constituents of the Democrat Party.  Instead, they might be having precisely the opposite effect. Feelings about gun-control range widely on both sides.  There are roughly as many Americans with pro-gun sentiments as those with anti-gun sentiments.   (more…)

Yesterday, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates passed anti-liberty resolutions surpassing what we anticipated just two weeks ago as we covered its planning. You can read about it on AMA Wire and MedPage Today, outlets that uncritically regard the AMA as the fount of all medical correctness. Even the Associated Press wrote that the “physicians group bowed to unprecedented demands from doctor-members to take a stronger stand on gun violence”. (more…)