Hoplophobes are people who have an irrational fear of firearms. What is it like for them as they wait for their monster to attack, and can they be helped?
Robert B. Young
Doctors Asking Patients About Guns is an Ethical Violation & Malpractice… VIDEO
So far we strongly object to the notion that doctors have any right to ask patients routinely about gun ownership. That’s an ethical violation and malpractice if it leads to harm.
American Medical Association versus America
The AMA has left most physicians behind by focusing on politics more than medicine as they continue denigrating the vast number of Second Amendment respecting health care providers…
Medical Economic’s Biased Article Reeks of Hoplophobia
The editors at Medical Economics, choice of a fuming hoplophobe to write about guns only confirms that bias is alive in their newsletter…
A Gun Owner Goes to the Doctor
Most doctors don’t care whether you own guns & won’t bother asking because they don’t have the time, but what if your doctor asks you about your guns?
Studying Anti-Gun Studies: Confusion, Obfuscation & Irrelevance
What we find any time we dissect “studies” that purport to show that the presence of guns causes more harm than good. The harm is always a matter of correlation & conjecture, not causation.
Gun Violence Restraining Orders, Unrestrained
No appearance, representation or defense by the accused is required, as one might think is mandated by the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution.
What’s Wrong: Some Women or All Guns?
Most women who are afraid of guns have no bad personal experiences of them…
What Do Women Want – with Firearms?
The movement toward individual gun ownership and carrying firearms among women has ballooned…
Does Firearm Legislation Affect Firearm-Related Injuries? Reviewing a Review
We take some satisfaction in revealing when “research” turns out to be made of recycled memes, illogical methods and forgone conclusions.
How We’re Taught About Guns – Part Two
Sheltering children from depictions of guns did nothing to protect them from their innate curiosity about the world, including firearms.
How We’re Taught About Guns – Part 1
Since 2000, the Entertainment Industries Council published a Firearm Depiction Tip Sheet to guide production staff in how to show firearms in the most undesirable ways.
Guns Are Not Pathogens, The Truth Is Out
What is remarkable is the USA has the highest rate of civilian gun ownership in the world. Yet the United States is among the safest places to live in the world…
Critiquing the “Research” Criticizing Guns
Anti gun researchers at The New England Journal of Medicine don’t like “research parasites” using their data to try to disprove what the original investigators claim to have proved..!?!
Executive Action, Gun Control and Mental Illness: Too Little is Still Too Much
One outcome of Obama’s announcement is great concern that physicians & mental health care providers will now be reporting everyone’s mental illness to the FBI, which runs the NICS.
Doctors Take Issue with Guns
So “the root of the problem” is now “the psychological or sociological makeup of the United States”, especially the “dangerous” “cancer” of the National Rifle Association?
The Bill for Our Rights – 224th Anniversary
People need to do the right things for themselves & each other, even with powerful tools like firearms. If we don’t, we’ll lose our history, our liberty, & each other…
Doctors Don’t Know Gun Control
We are coming into an era of a new kind of attacker—the trained, well-equipped terrorist as in San Bernardino. There is no other recourse once attacked but to fight back with everything one has…
Is This a Turning Point in the Gun Fight?
Something interesting may be happening. The lines in the sand are becoming clearer between gun banners and freedom lovers.
Guest Commentary – The Mounties Kicked in How Many Doors in High River?
On September 5, 2013, Wildrose MLA Danielle Smith held a Town Hall in High River, Alberta to shed some light on the forced entries into what we thought were a few hundred homes by the RCMP…..
The Bullies of ISIS: Incredible Sadism In Syria
They have to be faced down. The sadistic brutality is driven by faith & reward within a closed society, whether state-sponsored or religiously sanctioned. Dáesh is both..
Against Suicide, Not Guns
How do we reconcile this most frequent gun-related risk with our right to self-defense and to keep and bear arms?
Gun Haters and Sticks & Stones …
It is almost certifiably crazy to believe in a lot of what the ‘anti-gun violence’ crowd wants you to believe…
Gun Bias In, Gun Bias Out
Evan DeFilippis and Devin Hughes offer up a scattershot opinion piece chock full of statistics and analysis to justify the usual anti-gun beliefs…
Gun Culture
It’s revealing that antis assume something wrong with gun owners associating socially & sharing gun-related activities. It’s hard to imagine the same point of view about American car culture…
Who Are The Mass Murderers?
There is much speculation about how to identify people at risk of committing violence and mass murderers, in order to preempt their possessing firearms…