Some Good Articles

[Subdeacon Joe]

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership

 

Doesn't look to be one of those fronts for antis.

 

Some samples:

Gun Control, Racist as Ever

 

In his February 9 DRGO post, “Slander as Science”, my colleague Dr. Timothy Wheeler illustrates several ways in which supposed “researchers” on health and violence pass off unsubstantiated bias and speculation as scientific conclusions. Part of the trick is using so many big-word phrases and references to similarly flawed work that readers may glaze over and assume that they know what they’re talking about. Well, they probably do know what they’re doing—advocating an anti-gun agenda for emotional and political reasons, not to mention that academic careers can be made this way.

A recurring theme in this chorus is the allegation that Americans who value independence and self-defense are racists—basically that they are white people who fear non-whites. Of course, believing this canard requires denying the entire history of gun control in America. That started with forbidding slaves to use firearms, continued with Klan riders intimidating freed slaves and their descendants from having the means to defend themselves, carried on into Jim Crow (such as the rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s pistol permit request), and lives on in the high violent crime rates of our inner cities where minorities are the majority. It requires ignoring the founding principles of the National Rifle Association (NRA) to train all comers in marksmanship, open to all races from its founding in 1871, another legacy that continues.

 

http://www.drgo.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/CCJ-Amicus-Brief-in-Peruta-v-San-Diego-County.pdf

 

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
No standard of review analysis is needed. A government action which forbids almost the entire population from
exercising a constitutional right is per se unconstitutional. Banning almost everyone from exercising the right to bear arms is as facially unconstitutional as forbidding almost everyone from speaking in public places. As the Supreme Court made clear in District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), and McDonald v. City of Chicago, Ill. , 130 S. Ct. 3020
(2010), make clear, self-defense is by definition a “good cause” for exercising the right to keep and bear arms; indeed it is the best possible cause, the core of the right.