[Dr. Faria originally posted this article on HaciendaPublishing.com on April 11.] On April 10, 2019, New Zealand MPs voted almost unanimously to pass draconian gun control laws in the aftermath of the Christchurch mosque shooting. As a result, “military-style semiautomatic firearms” are now banned. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardem stated she would be signing the legislation into […]

[Ed: We are reposting Dr. Faria’s article showing the extent of the statist, anti-weapons hysteria that has bloomed in the formerly peaceable kingdom. It originally appeared at HaciendaPub.com on March 7.] In a previous article, I described how news articles coming out of BBC News have become so biased and critical not only of President Donald Trump and […]

  [Ed: Dr. Faria’s review of Showdown was first published October 26 at HaciendaPublishing.com. His upcoming book is America, Guns, and Freedom: A Journey Into Politics and the Public Health & Gun Control Movements (2019), which we look forward to reviewing.]  Showdown: The Looming Crisis Over Gun Control by Lenden A. Eakin (Mascot Books, 2014) is more than a book about […]

[Ed: Here is “the rest of the story”, concluding Dr. Faria’s wide-ranging piece originally published in Surgical Neurology International in 2012. See out preceding I and II for our sequential excerpts; the full version is at HaciendaPub.com. Please see the original for the author’s references.] SUICIDE, ACCIDENTAL SHOOTINGS, CHILDREN AND GUNS

[Ed: Here is an excerpt from Part II of the editorial contributor Manuel Faria, MD, published in Surgical Neurology International in 2012. Our shortened Part I is here; the full version is at HaciendaPub.com. The rest (our Part III)will follow. Please see the originals for the author’s references.] In his celebrated book, The Samurai, the […]

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 […]

[Our colleague Miguel Faria, MD, offered this review on the “public health” war on guns from HaciendaPublishing.com.] The public health establishment, supported by the medical journals, has renewed its call for the need for more gun research to be conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and funded by taxpayers. In other words, public health […]

[Ed: Part 2 of Dr. Faria’s piece, slightly edited for DRGO, was first published in December in the Macon Telegraph, GOPUSA.com and HaciendaPub.com. It is a sharp analysis of the editorial bias inherent in organized medicine’s premier journals. Part 1 was posted on Tuesday.] In a recent editorial “Death by gun violence — A public […]