I believe everyone who is physically and mentally capable should take personal responsibility for their own health and well-being, and that of their dependents. That involves living a healthy lifestyle, and seeking competent medical advice. It also includes taking primary responsibility for their and their loved ones' personal safety. Living a healthy lifestyle does not have to be complicated either. As long as you eat a balanced diet, drink plenty of water, exercise frequently, and get...

Are anti-gun public health activists as statistically ignorant as they appear, or do they think their audiences are? They may be right about the journalists who parrot their parodies of scientific research. A recent article in The Trace, “Ten essential facts about guns and suicide”, reminded me of a pungent saying by the famous comedian, W.C. Fields: “If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with b---s---.” This article is chock full of BS, “bogus science.” (more…)

[Editor's note: This is the last of four presentations DRGO leadership gave at this weekend's 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation in Tampa. See the video, beginning at 9:36:35.] I want to thank Alan Gottlieb and Julianne Versnel and their staff for once again putting on the best networking conference ever for firearm civil rights.  And, especially for sponsoring Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership, DRGO, as one of its projects. And since...

[Editor's note: This is the third of four presentations DRGO leadership gave at this weekend's 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation in Tampa. See the video, beginning at 9:25:58.] Nearly a quarter century ago, a young surgeon (well, young by physician standards) discovered that firearm ownership was becoming vilified by the medical powers-that-were.  Anti-gun agenda-driven “studies” shocked him, like Kellerman’s 1993 New England Journal of Med...

[Editor's note: This is the second of four presentations DRGO leadership gave at this weekend's 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation in Tampa. See the video, beginning at 9:20:10.] Thank you, Alan, Julianne and the SAF for asking me to speak to you again this year. As you may know I am a fervent opponent of Gun Free Zones in general, and in hospitals, in particular. The gun free zone, that is my hospital workplace, is the motivating factor for...

[Editor's note: This is the first of four presentations DRGO leadership gave at this weekend's 31st annual Gun Rights Policy Conference hosted by the Second Amendment Foundation in Tampa. See the video, beginning at 9:12:08.] I’d like to thank the Second Amendment Foundation for the honor of being able to speak here today and especially to speak among my fellow members of DRGO, John Edeen, Robb Young, and Timothy Wheeler.  I first became involved with DRGO after hearing John Edeen speakin...

[Editor’s note: The following letter by DRGO's Dr. Arthur Z Przebinda, MD is a response to comments to a post by The Truth About Guns quoting him about the principles underlying Florida's Firearms Protection Act (FOPA). The letter was originally published September 19, 2016 at The Truth About Guns. It is reproduced here by permission.]   Dear Dan and Robert. I’m concerned that you and your readership may be being misled and distracted by the recent publications about “studies” of the “...

At DRGO we’ve often written about advocacy science, which really isn’t science at all.  Rather, it is politics masquerading as science.  There’s also such a thing as advocacy journalism, which really isn’t journalism at all.  It is politics masquerading as journalism. DRGO recently was approached by Kaiser Health News reporter Shefali Luthra for a story on the latest pediatric journal article aimed at shoring up the case for doctors probing their patients about guns in their homes. (more&...