Safe Guns - Healthy Lives

04/15/2022

New printed resource covering gun safety. -

07/01/2015

http://mikethegunguy.com/2015/07/01/want-to-learn-nothing-about-public-health-and-guns-listen-to-the-drgo/

There are a couple of loud-mouth fools out there masquerading as physicians who run something called Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO). Actually, what they run is a website that is spon...

04/07/2015

http://mikethegunguy.com/2015/04/06/if-we-curb-straw-sales-do-we-curb-gun-crime-im-not-so-sure/

Last week the NSSF announced they were going to bring their Don’t Lie for the Other Guy billboard campaign to Oakland, CA, Wilmington, DE and Camden, NJ. They claim that the campaign will generate...

04/02/2015

http://mikethegunguy.com/2015/04/02/what-does-gun-safety-really-mean/

It’s been a bit more than twenty years since the debate over guns really heated up. Much of the noise was due to the 1994 Clinton gun bills which the NRA and other gun-owning organizations vigorou...

03/29/2015

http://www.jwatch.org/na37399/2015/03/27/managing-abdominal-gunshot-wounds-nonoperatively?query=etoc_jwem

To better determine the safety of nonoperative management by relying on computed tomography (CT) imaging in patients with abdominal gunshot wounds,

03/17/2015

http://mikethegunguy.com/2015/03/10/a-medical-voice-from-the-past-explains-gun-violence-in-the-present/

I don’t usually applaud anything that the quack physician, Timothy Wheeler, posts on his Doctors for Reponsible Gun Ownership website, but he’s done us all a favor today by digging up a remarkable...

09/11/2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/panera-nra-guns_b_5799134.html

What the NRA is trying to do is cast itself in a softer, more reasonable and, if you'll pardon the expression, less combative way, because for the first time they are up against an opponent whose money, smarts and media access can sway lots of people...

08/22/2014

http://mikethegunguy.com/2014/08/22/another-gun-violence-expert-tells-physicians-how-to-do-their-jobs/

While editorial opinion seemed to be running against the recent 11th-District ruling that reinstated Florida’s gag law, there were some notable exceptions, chief among them being an op-ed that appe...

08/11/2014

http://mikethegunguy.com/2014/08/11/a-different-perspective-on-docs-versus-glocks/

I’m going to paraphrase President Obama’s quip about Cliven Bundy at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: If someone starts off by saying that doctors shouldn’t invade the privacy of patients by...

08/07/2014

http://mikethegunguy.com/2014/08/06/whats-the-difference-between-roe-v-wade-and-heller-vs-district-of-columbia-maybe-nothing/

The right to bear arms, as stated in the 2nd Amendment and defined by the SCOTUS in the Heller and McDonald cases, got a boost this week from the most unlikely source; i.e., an abortion-rights case...

07/29/2014

http://mikethegunguy.com/2014/07/29/here-comes-bloomberg-and-some-senators-may-not-be-able-to-duck/

Several months ago I wrote a blog in which I pointed out that Mike Bloomberg’s access to media at all levels would make him a formidable opponent of the NRA when it came to talking to non-gun owner...

07/29/2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/dc-concealed-carry-guns_b_5626590.html

Talk about a gift. If this ruling is not challenged and overthrown, Palmer vs. DC paves the way for the gun lobby to get what it has always wanted, namely, national concealed-carry without having to pass a federal law at all....