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By Timothy Wheeler, MD Last week came first a flurry of denials and defiance from Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, MD, culminating in his resignation under a cloud of scandal. Then from Portland congressman Earl Blumenauer came a report outlining steps to reduce “gun violence” by using (cliché alert!) a public health approach. Rep. Blumenauer’s announcement, […]
[Editor’s note: This article by Jane Orient, M.D., the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, summarizes the problems inherent in the public health community’s longstanding politically motivated attempt to reframe firearm injuries and deaths as a public health problem. We present it here as a resource for our members and the […]
[Editor’s Note. This article was originally published at TheTruthAboutGuns.com] More attention is being paid to the role of mental illness in mass shootings the last several years, reasonably since nearly all the perpetrators seem to have experienced significant reality distortion. Yet mental illness actually plays very little part in the incidence of “gun violence”. (That […]
Gun Violence Restraining Orders July 16, 2014 By Robert B. Young, MD Killers, especially mass murderers, often appear to have some mental illness. They may not have been treated, or were not successfully treated, or their need for treatment wasn’t recognized. Overall, people with mental illnesses are no more likely to commit violence than the […]
President Obama’s troubled nomination of Vivek Murthy, MD to become the nation’s next Surgeon General raises important questions of policy and politics. The political is pretty obvious. Dr. Murthy is an accomplished physician at the age of 36 with a fascinating personal history, having been born in Britain to Indian parents. He is now at […]
The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has published what it calls a fact sheet about “gun violence” among youth. DRGO has been informed that the Arizona Association of School Psychologists has submitted this flawed publication to the Arizona legislature in support of enacting firearm policy. DRGO’s Advisory Board member Glen Otero, PhD has analyzed […]
Like many people, doctors work to keep up with the torrent of new information in their field. One time-tested learning resource for doctors is the medical journal. In addition to general medical journals that cover a wide spectrum of new medical knowledge, most doctors regularly read at least one journal dealing only with their own […]
The Gun Writer Harvard pediatrician spreads dangerous ‘gun safety’ advice Wednesday, April 17, 2013 by Lee Williams Lee’s note: This is the second guest column from Timothy Wheeler, MD, director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), a project of the Second Amendment Foundation. Floridians are becoming depressingly familiar with pediatricians pushing a gun control […]