By Timothy Wheeler, MD Washington, D.C., to its lasting disgrace, is the epicenter of the civil rights struggle of our time—the fight to exercise our right to keep and bear arms. At a meeting in the District of Columbia’s St. Augustine’s Catholic Church last month, newly elected D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser assured her audience:   “You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what...

By Timothy Wheeler, MD The psychiatrist Sarah Thompson, MD first wrote about herd immunity conferred on the general population by a small minority of people willing to accept the responsibility of concealed carry of a firearm for self-protection. Criminals hate the prospect of getting shot, and when they know a certain number of their potential victims are armed, they tend to look elsewhere for easier prey. With the current measles outbreak, the public is getting an education in the pr...

Billed as “bipartisan” and even “bistate” (the history of competition, and even antagonism, between their states precedes the Civil War), two state legislators are seeking publicity for a proposal coming from the American State Legislators for Gun Violence Prevention (ASLGVP). Kansas state Representative Barbara Bollier and Missouri state Representative Stacey Newman presented their “common sense” plan to prevent domestic violence via confiscation of guns from convicted stalkers and domestic...

By Robert B Young, MD (published at The Gun Writer) “People with guns kill people” is an apparently sensible heading for a report on “gun violence” by a professional organization that regards firearms as dangers for which availability and access should be restricted. Gun Violence: Prediction, Prevention, and Policy was presented in August by the American Psychological Association (APA) at its annual meeting. It rightly calls attention to the need to understand factors in development, com...

By John Edeen, MD [Editor's Note: After our publication of Dr. Edeen's article "A Tale of Two Shootings" some readers wrote in, stating that Dr. Edeen was incorrect and not up to date regarding the carrying of concealed handguns into hospitals in Texas. Below, is Dr. Edeen's collective response.] I would like to respond to several emails that correctly point out that since 2007, the concealed handgun license law in Texas was changed to provide a defense of possession of a firearm in pr...

By Timothy Wheeler, MD For almost a decade now Washington, D.C. has been the epicenter of the civil rights struggle of our time—the fight to exercise our right to keep and bear arms. At a meeting in the District of Columbia’s St. Augustine’s Catholic Church last month, newly elected D.C. mayor Muriel Bowser assured her audience:  “You have a mayor who hates guns. If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what th...

By Timothy Wheeler, MD DRGO has long been involved in the public health gun prohibition movement’s campaign to make “the gun question”—an ethical boundary violation in medical practice—the so-called standard of medical care. My foundational article on the subject is here—“Boundary Violations: Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office”. Now Woodward News (Oklahoma) staff writer Rachael Van Horn is investigating an ominous evolution of that unprofessional conduct, the inclusion of questions ab...