DRGO at GRPC

Via email:

DRGO leaders are again attending the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference, this year in Dallas. We will be speaking at 5:00 pm on Saturday September 29. We know of no live feed, but you can view all the presentations and panels beginning Monday at www.libertywatchradio.com/GRPC_. We’ll be posting to the DRGO  Facebook page from the conference, will later add DRGO’s presentation to our YouTube channel, and will report on the conference highlights next week on the DRGO blog.

Dr. Edeen will report on the violence that medical personnel and patients have suffered this past year, and how gun free zones and hospital policies permit that. He will share work by Rob Morse and Dr. John Lott on how the current concealed carry license scheme deprives millions of their Second Amendment rights. He will highlight the hypocrisy of the left when it comes to Second Amendment rights versus voter rights. Finally, he will suggest how the current administration can do more to “Make the Second Amendment Great Again".

Leadership Transition

Received via email from DRGO:

After founding Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership 23 years ago and acting as its director since then, Timothy W. Wheeler, MD is retiring at the end of this year from the day-to-day operations of the project ... As of January 1, the leadership team will consist of Arthur Przebinda, MD—Project Director:  The primary contact person for media or business inquiries, as well as administrative, financial and operational oversight. Robert B. Young, MD—Executive Editor:  In charge of all editing functions concerning DRGO’s blog and other written content, as well as oversight of DRGO’s social media.The other members of the leadership team are: John Edeen, MD Membership Director; Sean Brodale, DO
Outreach Director.

New from Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

• DRGO Update for October 1, 2018
• Who Are Mass Murderers and Why Do They Kill
• DRGO versus Anti-Gun Pseudoscience
• Constitution Day and Us
• What Constitutes Responsible Gun Ownership?
• Gun Politics Redux, Not Medical Science

DRGO July Updates

Via email:

Here is our next update about DRGO activity during the past 4 weeks.

Check out the site for more.

New from DRGO

• Doctors’ Notes from the NRA
• “Safety On–An introduction to the world of firearms for children”
• How Often Are “Children” “Injured” by “Guns” in “Canada”?
• Guns and Domestic Violence—Surprising Findings
• A New Law for a New Time
• And lots more...

About That Lancet "Study"

We talked about it briefly here.

DRGO tells us not only is the force behind it a major hoplophobe who advocates they should be "reported," but even more recognized "anti-gun researchers" have said she's full of it.

If you go read this now, I believe many of you will want to join me in sharing the link.

Prescription for Freedom

• Community in Firearms
• Common Sense Tongue Control
• Midnight Rider
• Hospital Terror in Kabul: Coming to Your Country Soon
• Director of Homeland Security
• DRGO Releases Position Paper Supporting Access to Firearms Suppressors
• Understanding Blunt Force Trauma Lethality: An Interview with Dr. Robert Margulies (Part 1)
• Understanding Blunt Force Trauma Lethality: An Interview with Dr. Robert Margulies (Part 2)

March Media Update from Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

• Official DRGO Statement Regarding the en banc 11th Circuit Court Wollschlaeger (FOPA) Decision.
• Wollschlaeger (FOPA) Again
• Anti-Gun Academics Cry: “Please Send Money!”
• Guns, Grit and Good Health
• Inconvenient Truth
• Dr. Young on Cam & Co

And if you missed my recent write-up...

Death Panels

Health Systems Interventions to Prevent Firearm Injuries and Death: A Workshop [More]

Just in time for pre-mid term headlines and talking points!

I'm going to forward this to DRGO and see if this is something they can influence.

[Via Larry H]

Physician, Heal Thyself

DRGO identifies some abuses I consider to be malpractice. [More]

If a doctor starts asking you gun questions, why not ask him a few of your own?

[Via Felix B]

Eye on the Target

Dr. John Edeen of DRGO joins Rob and Amanda to explain why physicians in the know believe in patients defending their lives. [Listen]

DRGO Updates

[More]

Gun Talk Redux

Yesterday's Gun Talk Radio show with Tom Gresham has now been posted in the archives. [More]

I was in Hour Two/Part B, followed by  Marty Hayes, Armed Citizen's Network.

Hour One/Part A featured Joyce Rubino of Colt's Mfg. and Dr. Tim Wheeler from DRGO.

Hour Three/Part C included Jeff Knox from The Firearms Coalition and Chris Cerino of the Chris Cerino Training Group.

A Second Opinion

 Science is supposed to be clear, logical and objective. Unfortunately, it is as messy and ego-driven as any other human endeavor. Even though these studies really show that neither civilian gun ownership nor gun laws have anything to do with rates of suicide, homicide, mass shootings or other violence, these researchers misstate their own results and cannot give up their bias against guns. [More]

Are you aware of DRGO?

Have you told anyone else about them?

New from DRGO

• GUNS REDUCE SUFFERING
• For the Children
• Public health, social science, and the scientific method. Part I
• Anti-Gun Research, or, How to Gain Notoriety While Accomplishing Nothing
• The Gun As Talisman
• Public Health is Not Medicine
• Brownie Bear Teaches Gun Safety, by B.L. Brown
• Gun Control: A Passivity Disorder?

[Read all]

Just What the Doctor Ordered

• Doctors Without Partisans
• Showdown: The Looming Crisis Over Gun Control
• Concealed-Carry Does NOT Increase Violent Crime
• DRGO at the 2018 Gun Rights Policy Conference
• The Three Boxes of Frederick Douglass
• Once the Court Affirms Right to Carry
• What is the Second Amendment About?
• What Can 100 Million Armed Americans Tell Us?
• The Healing Power of . . . Firearms?
• Emergency Trauma Care at School Shootings

DRGO Update

Via email:

• On July 31, Project Direct Dr. Arthur Przebinda wrote "Can Kaiser Permanente Be Honest in Gun Research?". The question pertains to many organizations, but with so vast a reach throughout our most populous state, it matters a great deal what line KP providers are intended to toe.

• Dr. Gift did a careful reading of “Fatal Firearm Incidents Before and After Australia’s 1996 National Firearms Agreement Banning Semiautomatic Rifles” August 2 from Annals of Internal Medicine. This is another litany of methods commonly used to arrive at the desired conclusions.

• We published 'MarkPA's speculations about how a Kavanaugh Supreme Court might act on Second Amendment issues, with an emphasis on incremental reduction in existing infringements rather than a sea change. See Part 1 August 7 and Part 2 August 9 of "What Will Come from the Kavanaugh Court?". 

Into the Lion's Den

Sorry, I don’t remember if there was any applause at the end. But there were a number of attendees who couldn’t wait to get out of there and back to work! [More]

DRGO Editor Robert B. Young, MD, braves the Department of Psychiatry at Queens Hospital Center. He did a much better job at not calling the gunquack who asked him if he values hunting more than children's lives a [expletive] moron than I would have done.

Questions for Gunquacks

Download the DRGO Resource Document “What to Do When Your Doctor Asks About Your Guns”. [More]

I've got one of my own.

Medical Checkup for Daddy's Little Girl

Finally, it would be nice if Ms. Mascia or someone at your blog could actually address the points I made against Dr. Palfrey’s disgraceful, bloody shirt-waving CNN op-ed instead of copying and pasting an erroneous article from thinkprogress.org . [More]

I just found out the hit man's daughter wrote a hit piece (naturally) on DRGO a few years back, and Dr. Wheeler took a moment to expose journalistic malpractice and gross ethical violations.

You'd think with his diagnosis of something so easily treatable, and his prescription for an infusion of truth, that if she wasn't cured by now, she would at least have her condition under control. Maybe she's one of those twisted types that gets off spreading Acquired Insidious Disinformation Syndrome and enjoying the damage that does.