I have followed the gun control debate in the US for a couple of years and now the current
physician-gun lobbyist confrontation here in Canada. All those who have been debating this …

As a legal licensed gun owner in Canada I am strongly opposed to gun crime and violence.
But I am tired of being made the scapegoat for societal problems I had no part in causing …

Gun control: The Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and 27 other health-
related organizations have issued an open letter calling on Members of Parliament to quash …

Many medical publications explicitly or implicitly support increasingly stringent gun-control
laws, arguing from fear and promulgating assertions that are without foundation or that …

BANNING GUNS may not be the only way to reduce the toll of death and injury from
handguns. Weapons can be designed so they cannot be used except by the owner; …

Canadian doctors have joined their American colleagues in declaring that the medical
profession has a duty to address firearms safety. The topic has received much attention of …

In our experience, public health practitioners (rather than scholars) seeking to address a
health problem often have just two very basic questions about the law:(1) how can I use the …

Organized medicine is joining with the Obama Administration to demand restoration of
funding to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for research on “gun …

A Canadian gun lobby group recently launched an aggressive, coordinated attack on Dr.
Najma Ahmed, a Toronto trauma surgeon and founder of Canadian Doctors for Protection …

As physicians, we want to do the right thing, both for individual patients and overall public
health. We may endanger the very people we desire to protect, however, if we see every …