[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 […]

[Ed: After posting, we learned that Dr. Kleck is revisiting the CDC data. Its surveys were apparently done in only 15 states, with about a quarter of the U.S. population then. These did give  a mix of rural and urban, gun friendly and unfriendly. So they still support Kleck’s findings, but upon Dr. Kleck publishing […]

[Ed: A new and properly barbed review of the illusory “smart gun” gambit perpetrated by anti-gun proponents who don’t know (or maybe do) what they’re talking about. See also The Illusion of Safety. Part 2 appears next week.] Among the latest hustles and bogus gambits pursued by the gun control advocates is the so-called “smart […]

[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 […]

[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 […]

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 […]

[Ed: We’ve previously reviewed books educating young people about gun safety. Here’s one educating adults about the historical justification of self-defense, individually and collectively. First published on HaciendaPub.com 3/15/18.] David Kopel’s monumental book, The Morality of Self-Defense and Military Action: The Judeo-Christian Tradition (2017) has not received the attention it deserves for such a well-researched […]

[With the current gun control hysteria, timely questions with answers that have to be raised over and over. First published on HaciendaPub.com 4/5/18.] Following the Parkland high school mass shooting on Valentine’s Day, gun control has once again been pushed to the forefront of political discussion by gun prohibitionists exploiting each and every tragedy to […]