[Ed: We welcome a new contributor, retired pediatrician Cris McBride, MD, who does not suffer foolishness about firearms gladly. His Letter to the Editor of his local paper, published there in slightly longer form on April 7, is another good example of the influence that can and should be exerted by anyone concerned by current restrictionist sentiment. Please write to your own outlets, and share with DRGO!]     To the Editor, Eastern Arizona Courier Dear Editor, ...

[Ed: Part 2 of Dr. Chen's essay about the importance of the RKBA. Part 1 is here.] What we should do about school shootings 1.) Enforce current laws and improve law enforcement: The Parkland Shooting did not demonstrate the failure of gun laws.  It demonstrated the spectacular failure of law enforcement on every level. The Broward County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI ignored at least 45 calls for service related to the killer Nicholas Cruz. (more…)

[Ed: Welcome to new author Victor Chen, MD who adds the cross-cultural perspective of an Asian-American to valuing the Second Amendment and why we all should. Think Chris Cheng, Top Shot winner & NRA commentator. Part 2 will follow.] I'd like to address why the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is so important to me and to Americans like me. I think it is important I talk about this first, because many gun control advocates feel that even if a specific gun control law is truly pointless, pet...

[Ed: We welcome a new author today, a pharmacist working undercover in a front-line state in the gun rights war, who prefers to remain anonymous until escape to a free state becomes possible.] We dodged the bullet. It is now 2018 and we have seen a year of Second Amendment support from the President that would not have been the case if his opponent had won the election. Still, eternal vigilance is required to safeguard our rights. So, I would like to alert the reader to a sinister thre...

American media sets cultural agendas as much as it reports them. There is always dynamic tension across the media spectrum as different outlets show distinct differences in perspective. Media also portrays images in line with their agenda to achieve desired effects. This is very evident in political coverage, especially in coverage of war, crime, gun rights, and the Second Amendment. (more…)

DRGO has been receiving email inquiries about referrals to gun-friendly healthcare providers for years. From the time I joined DRGO's leadership in 2015, I've seen a steadily increasing stream of such emails. Since the launch of 2Adoc.com in September 2017, something new has started occurring: people have been contacting us to tell us they are being inappropriately asked about gun ownership. It has long been the position of DRGO that such questioning (and the ant-gun propagandizing that u...

HUGE news broke at the end of last week. Gary Kleck, PhD, the David J. Bordua Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Florida State University, published a new paper:  "What Do CDC’s Surveys Say About the Frequency of Defensive Gun Uses?" The heart of the matter is that Dr. Kleck and co-author Marc Gertz, PhD were right in their 1995 blockbuster study, “Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun”, about the number of defensive gun uses in 1992—as many as 2.4 m...

[Ed: Our correspondent, Dr. Janis Chester, offered to share a couple of letters she's written in her mission to support gun rights in Delaware. First is her letter to the editor of the Cape Gazette, published April 2. Below that you'll find her letter to her state representative, Sean Lynn from March 20. She knows how to communicate the pro-gun perspective on public issues. She is polite but pointed, fact-based and logical, clear and convincing. Don't underestimate the power of a well-writte...