‘The Impact of New York’s SAFE Act Reporting on Gun Owners’ Health Care Decisions’

[Ed: Sandra Richardson, RN, recently retired from the NYS Department of Health, put her data analysis expertise to work examining the consequences of required reporting of potential danger by all NYS mental health providers. It is not good. This is a VERY important paper, peer reviewed and published in a mainstream public health journal. We highly recommend reading the full article. Ms. Richardson's comments follow.] This 2025 research paper summarizes an anonymous survey among gun owner...
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Gunshots, Hearing Loss, and Suppressors: The Science Behind Hearing Protection

[Ed: At the Second Amendment Foundation's Gun Rights Policy Conference September 27, Associate Director and ENT surgeon Hayes Wanamaker spoke to the importance of suppressors as a medical device to protect hearing for shooters and bystanders. He and DRGO founder Tim Wheeler (also an ENT surgeon) spearheaded their recent endorsement by the American Association of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgeons. The speech can be seen in its entirely at the DRGO YouTube channel here, with his sl...
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Thank you, Charlie Kirk.

(from newsweek.com) Yesterday afternoon was stunning for anyone who respected Charlie Kirk’s conservative activism and intellect. Having this happen on the eve of 9/11 is piling on. Conservativism on campus was moribund until he took up his mission to restore it, with strong chapters of his group Turning Point USA at over 850 colleges in the United States. His interviews, debates and podcasts all showed his quick, grounded take on conservative values and why they have more legs than most...
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Our Declaration of Independence

[Ed: There’s no better way to mark July 4th than to read our country’s Declaration of Independence. The original orthography is retained, but the specific complaints about King George and Parliament’s abuses are edited out in order to focus on the principles that applied then, do now, and always will. Reposted since 2019.] Happy Independence Day from DRGO! . . In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.  When in the C...
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A Day to Remember

[Ed: First appearing on DRGO 6 years ago, we repost this piece yearly.] Memorial Day has now come for the 57th time since it was officially proclaimed in 1967. It has been kept nationwide, though unofficially, since World War II, and as Decoration Day since 1868.  It was born in spontaneous memorials early during the Civil War.  Remembering war dead has been important throughout history, even as the manner of recognition has changed across time and societies. As with many things cultu...
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Suppressors Are Preventive Medicine

(from NRA.org) [DRGO's founding director, Tim Wheeler, MD, wrote this for NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine, first posted February 20 but also in the most recent print issue.] Academic medical organizations have traditionally resisted the decades-long loosening of American gun-control laws. Since at least the 1980s, they have been uniformly hostile to the very idea of gun ownership. They take this position despite the fact that this freedom is enshrined in our history and in the U.S. C...
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Bad, Bad Bullets!

(from pngmart.com)
(from pngmart.com) The authors of the latest creative anti-shooting attack begin their pieceBullets as Pathogens: The Need for Public Health and Policy Approaches with “Guns don’t kill people. Bullets do.” Thus, they show themselves to be advanced thinkers. Right away, they inform readers that they are “gun violence researchers”, labeling themselves as zealots. The authors state that 1.1 million firearm related death occurred between 1990 and 2021. By looking at a span of years, rather th...
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ENT Docs Strongly Endorse Suppressors for Hearing Health

(from zigya.com) The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, representing more than 13,000 Ear, Nose and Throat physicians, issued its formal policy statement on November 18 supporting the use of suppressors for the prevention of hearing loss from firearms. Earlier this year, seven Academy members led by Dr. Timothy Wheeler, founder of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (www.DRGO.us), submitted a thoroughly researched and referenced proposal documenting the critical r...
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