Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived at the unfortunate but inescapable conclusion […]
The Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control Read More »
Just when you thought talking to your doctor or psychiatrist was one of the most private and confidential things you could do … think again.(1) In what it describes as an effort to curb handgun violence, a group called Doctors Against Handgun Injury is calling for sweeping changes in doctor-patient confidentiality that would allow doctors,
Doctors to Spy on Patients’ Gun Ownership by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
Once again, we bear witness to another tragic school shooting! On Monday, March 5, 2001, Charles “Andy” Williams, a “smiling,” unassuming, diminutive student opened fire killing two youths and wounding thirteen other people at the suburban San Diego county Santana High School in Santee, California. The student had threatened and warned friends over the weekend
California: Another Lesson about Children and Guns Read More »
Georg Hegel (1770-1831), the father of dialectical idealism, which Karl Marx transmogrified and misappropriated as dialectical materialism, lamented that what we learn from history is that man does not learn its lessons. Despite what we have learned about the deleterious effects of draconian gun control in other countries, particularly during the last bloody century, politicians
National Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny Read More »
Two gun control organizations have stepped forward to bring different approaches to the gun control debate. Make no mistake about it, both of these groups have an agenda, and that is, circumvent the individual right to gun ownership embodied in the Second Amendment.(1) The Violence Policy Center (VPC) reports, “In 1998, for every time a
Women, Guns and Disinformation Read More »
A prominent member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons has refuted key details of a study published recently by the Violence Policy Center, in which researchers concluded that women were not safer if they used a handgun for self-defense. The VPC report,, called “A Deadly Myth: Women, Handguns and Self-Defense,” published Jan. 31,
