[Editor's Note: This article was originally published in Riverside, CA's The Press Enterprise on December 18, 2015.]  When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.  The worst terrorist attack on American soil in recent times unfolded two weeks ago, just down the street from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s headquarters.  By all accounts the sheriff’s department, San Bernardino police, and other law enforcement responded rapidly and performed admirably. But it wasn’t enough to p...

On Tuesday this week we all should have been jubilantly celebrating the 224th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, the original 10 amendments to the United States’ federal constitution. Remarkably, it slipped by relatively unremarked. Yet our Bill of Rights may actually be the most significant of our republic’s founding documents. The Declaration of Independence announced our nationhood. The Constitution defined our government. The Bill of Rights confirms our liberty as free...

The title of today’s lead story on CNN.com, “What Happened to the CDC’s Courage on Guns?” tells you all you need to know about the story.  Yes, it’s the latest mainstream media fairy tale about Congress’s 1997 withdrawal of tax money to pay for gun control advocacy at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  And it’s full of the distortions, omissions, and gun-hating partisanship we’ve come to expect from CNN. I knew when CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen an...

[Editor's note: E. John Wipfler, III, MD, FACEP is Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. A major (ret.) in the Army Reserves and expert in tactical emergency medicine, Dr. Wipfler serves as a Sheriff’s Physician.] The terrible mass murder by radicalized terrorists in San Bernardino was a jarring blow to the denial of many Americans.  This style of attack is not new. As we console the survivors’ families, as we mourn the lives lost, we ...

In less than three weeks, we’ve seen two of the more horrible radical jihadist attacks yet, of different sorts. In Paris on November 13, we saw an ISIS-directed and organized mass assault on innocent citizens of a European country that has been as welcoming of Muslim immigration as any in the West. On December 2 in San Bernardino, just two radicalized Muslim immigrants unleashed murder on supposed friends and colleagues at what was a happy employee Christmas party until that moment. (more&he...

I’m in favor of discussing firearms with anyone.  That's what we do here at DRGO. But should doctors advise patients about guns?   The answer depends on one’s perspective—and what that discussion entails. The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association say “Yes” but define “safe gun use” as “Never”. Florida’s Firearms Owners’ Privacy Act of 2011 says “No” in order to prevent anti-gun doctors from inappropriately influencing patients. The American Medical Asso...

[Editor's Note: The following article was published by The Hill in response to the November 20, 2015 story Dems push to end ban on gun violence research and is republished here with permission.] History is not always written by the victors. In a Friday letter to the Labor, Health, Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee, House Democrats urged repeal of the 1996 ban on funding for gun control advocacy at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  But n...

On this most American of holidays, Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership wishes all our members, followers, fans, readers and opponents a joyful day spent with family and dear friends with whom you may savor your bounty, peace and freedoms this country offers. We won't urge you to proselytize or politicize, as some have suggested, but should the conversation turn in that direction, DRGO has plenty of resources to help you make your point. Happy Thanksgiving!