There are a couple of ways to look at the issue of the so-called gun control “debate.” One can take it at face value — the Leftists being truly concerned with gun violence and the emotional toll on our society and the conservatives wanting to protect individual rights or self-protection. Or one can see it […]
The real issue behind the gun control ‘debate’ by Russell L. Blaylock, MD Read More »
Following the Parkland High School mass shooting on Valentine’s Day, gun control has once again been pushed to the forefront of political discussion by gun prohibitionists exploiting each and every tragedy to carry on their not so hidden agenda. This time they have even recruited teenagers, who understandably fear not only deranged madmen carrying out
It seems the problem with wild hogs persists despite my previous analysis and advice. Since this is a topic I seem inclined to write about, let’s revisit it. A recent article in The Advocate, a Baton Rouge newspaper, laments “a booming wild hog population.” The article went on to explain Louisiana lawmakers are considering drastic
In the wake of the terrible Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Valentine’s Day, a GOPUSA.com reader/commenter issued a challenge to me not just to criticize but also to provide “constructive criticism” regarding gun violence. He was responding to my article published the day before the tragic incident. Some of the queries have validity and
On ‘constructive criticism’ of gun violence — a GOPUSA dialogue by Miguel A. Faria, MD Read More »
In a recent editorial “Death by gun violence — A public health crisis,” twelve editors of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) lobbied, or rather lambasted, Congress for not dealing with gun violence as a public health issue and guns as viruses that need eradicating. But the editorial was laden with misconceptions and
In the wake of the heinous Las Vegas shooting, the medical politicians of the American Medical Association and the public health establishment — which is to the left side of politics on just about any topic even remotely related to medicine — have rallied to the cause of gun control political propaganda, rather than science. Toward
