By Timothy Wheeler, MD Children’s Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman has made a career of blaming America’s gun owners for gang crime. For 20 years she’s hammered away at the same theme—“children” (i.e., youthful gang members) are dying from “gun violence” and it’s all because you and I own guns. She never has bothered […]

By Timothy Wheeler, MD Harvard medical researchers just published a scholarly paper in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, claiming that more firearm laws in a state are associated with a lower rate of gun homicides and suicides.  However, examination of their data and research methods shows the opposite. McMaster University researcher Caillin Langmann, MD, PhD […]

Here’s another media doctor jumping on the “guns are a public health problem” bandwagon. Hey, I know it can sometimes be hard to meet publishing deadlines, but someone with an MD degree who holds himself out to the public as an expert really needs to get it right. I am forever amazed at how many […]

by Timothy Wheeler, MD In Part I and Part II of this three-part series we described the political movement of organized medicine and public health activists to advance gun control during the 1990s and into the 2000s.  During the first decade of the new century public reaction blunted the public health gun control push.  In […]

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Timothy Wheeler, MD In Part I of this three-part series I laid out the background and general intentions of public health gun control activists in the early years of their campaign. In this part we relate the events that led to exposure of the Centers for Disease Control in its crucial roles. Those roles were […]

By Timothy Wheeler, MD OK, it’s really the Harvard Injury Control Research Center. But the title of this post reflects the reality. It’s a division of the Harvard School of Public Health, which we described last week as one of the longtime gun control advocacy research factories. This page from their web site lists some […]

By Timothy Wheeler, MD In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school mass shooting, many have called for new restrictions on gun owners.  The blood at Sandy Hook Elementary School wasn’t dry before mainstream media pundits, scheming politicians, and career gun control advocates began heaping condemnation and slander on American gun owners.  Blaming innocent gun […]