By Matt Manda Dozens of hospital and healthcare executives converged on New York City for a conference to discuss their role as “leaders” in reducing the criminal misuse of firearms. Criminal misuse of firearms isn’t a public health issue nor should it be treated as such. It’s a criminal issue caused by individuals breaking the … Read more
COVID-19 has taken 800,000 American lives, and at the beginning of this pandemic, when the death toll was much lower, each death was discussed with care, reported and chronicled with a richness that brought strangers to life and gave voice to those often forgotten in nursing homes. The national mood was somber, collaborative and … Read more
By Lee Williams For gun owners, Joe Biden’s FY2022 discretionary budget plan is an assault on our individual freedoms and civil liberties, an assault that could cost us both billions of taxpayer dollars as well as our guns. Whoever actually wrote the plan is a master of creative writing — fiction writing — to be … Read more
This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. A Slew of Forced Reset Triggers Hit Market Many of us watched in agony as ATF again came after a popular product designed specifically to comply with the letter of … Read more
Health is a lot more than the absence of illness. And promoting health is a lot more than dealing with medical care. We have to be much more holistic in our approach. And gun violence prevention’s part of it. The effect of guns is not measured by the 41,000 deaths. That’s easy to measure, … Read more
“We don’t want no mo’ police.” “No Justice, No Peace.” “Mostly Peaceful Protests.” “Gun Control is a crisis of Public Health.” Just to remind us: the same people are making all four points. Completely without noticing how they interact. I don’t know how that is accomplished. Together it reads: We are going to let you … Read more
By Emily Taylor The federal government collected $3.5 trillion in taxpayer money in 2019. How much of that is being spent on demonizing guns? How much is being spent on advertising campaigns and public programs that are trying to take away your Second Amendment rights? How much of your taxpayer dollars are being spent on research that … Read more
By Larry Keane There’s an article in the New York Times this week about an increase in private funding for research into what the author calls “gun violence research.” The real story is how the criminal misuse of firearms has been rebranded as a public health problem, versus what it really is: a criminal justice issue. As … Read more
By Dr. LateBloomer I recently received a letter from the American Academy of Pediatrics, requesting my participation in one of their surveys about three issues – Suicide Prevention, Maintenance of certification, and the topic I particularly want to discuss—“Firearm Injury Prevention”. The letter and survey were accompanied by a 2-dollar bill as a “token of appreciation”. … Read more
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