Active Shooter Interdiction

[Ed: Dr. Edeen, our Membership Director, is a strong proponent of self-rescue, including shooting back, in medical settings that are so vulnerable to mass casualty attacks. He puts his time and money where his mouth is, and this report is one result.]  I recently traveled to the Firearms Academy of Seattle (FAS) in Onalaska, Washington, […]

August 13, 2018 Update from Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

News: Greetings again from DRGO!We enjoy providing you with these summaries of our activity and thoughts on the variety of matters we address. Please feel free to call on us for commentary on any Second Amendment matter on which medical expertise may bear.Don’t forget the Second Amendment Foundation’s annual Gun Rights Policy Conference in Chicago […]

MAG-120: Hospital Threat Management

[Ed: Dr. Edeen gave this talk at the MAG-120 course in Live Oak, Florida, December 11, 2017, slightly edited for DRGO.] Hospitals are not the idealized sanctuary of healing that many of us imagine them to be. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2011), 10% of workplace violence […]

Authors and Contributors

— Dr. Sean Brodale is a family practitioner & emergency physician in Iowa. He is pursuing the right to carry in hospitals for eligible medical personnel. At DRGO he is involved in membership and public engagement projects. All DRGO articles by Sean Brodale, DO —Dr. Michael S. Brown is a pragmatic Libertarian environmentalist who has […]

Doctors’ Notes from the NRA

We are just back from the sights and sounds of one of the largest conventions in these United States.  Our Membership Director, Dr. John Edeen and I met up on Friday and got to work, along with 81,834 others (yes, another record attendance). Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center is a multi-building complex that takes up […]

Bullets, Bagels, and Bearing Arms

[Ed: This is a speech delivered February 12 by DRGO’s Dr. Timothy Wheeler, at the Bullets & Bagels Club at Los Angeles’ LAX Range.]  Shalom!  And my thanks to Dr. Fred Kogen, who was kind enough to invite me to speak today.  I am always up for any opportunity to hang out with fellow gunnies, […]

Hospitals: Gun-Free Terrorist Targets

[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 […]