In Part I of this two-part series I laid out the background and general intentions of public health gun control activists in the early years of their campaign. In this part we relate the events that led to exposure of the Centers for Disease Control in its crucial roles. Those roles were the channeling of […]
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That [public health researchers] prefer the term “gun violence” is revealingof their mind set in approaching the problem, because it puts the emphasison guns and not on the humans who misuse them.Dr. Timothy Wheeler, Director,Doctors for Responsibie Gun Ownership (DRGO) In the wake of the Newtown, Connecticut school mass shooting, many have called for new
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Surgical Neurology International publishes a two-part series entitled “America, Guns, and Freedom: A Recapitulation of Liberty” and “Shooting Rampages, Mental Health, and the Sensationalization of Violence.” Open-access journal weighs in on the gun control debate from a neurological perspective As the issue of gun control heats up across the nation, (SNI) offers an objective point of view from a highly-respected
Recently, the media, including medical journalists in organized medicine (i.e., American Medical Association and affiliates) have focused their attention on the associations of violence in television, music, video games and movies to violent behavior in children and adolescents. To this end, a consensus statement of experts released July 26 and sponsored by the AMA and
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If the intent is to prevent mass shootings and other deadly acts, then gun control laws need to be eased not strengthened. During the early 1970s, the PLO waged a nefarious war of terrorism against Israel that included attacking schoolchildren on playgrounds. A rampage of terrorist attacks culminated in the Maalot massacre, in which Arab
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“Violence in America — Effective Soutions” by Suter EA, Waters WC, Murray GB, et al. was originally published in the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, Volume 85, June 1995, p. 253-263 while Dr. Miguel A. Faria served as Editor-in-Chief of that medical journal. The following link is provided for readers who wish to
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