For Immediate
Release
Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws
National Desk
August 5, 2000
Dr. William B. Rogers, Director of Doctors for Sensible Gun
Laws, announced today the opening of the group's web site at:
http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/DSGL
The mission of Doctors for Sensible Gun Laws
(DSGL) is to provide a healthy
dose of common sense and honesty to the national debate over
gun laws and the role of guns in society. DSGL is especially
concerned with the way that
medical organizations have allowed their names
and professional publications to be used to promote the agenda
of the
anti-gun/anti-self-defense lobby.
Dr. Rogers states: "The anti-gun 'studies' that have been
published under the false flag of medical research are conceived,
executed, analyzed and broadcast in the media strictly to support
the position of organizations, doctors and politicians who do not
believe that citizens have the most basic human right of all, the
right to self defense."
"Such concepts as intellectual honesty, peer review and
valid statistical analysis are conspicuously absent from this
so-called research. And these junk science 'studies' are costing
innocent people their very lives."
Many doctors and other medical professionals are fed up with
this situation, but have found their views frozen out of the
debate by vested interests in the medical leadership.
DSGL Board Member Dr. Michael S. Brown, of Vancouver,
Washington says: "Using professional journals to disseminate
political propaganda shames doctors everywhere."
Dr. Andrew Johnstone of Indianapolis proclaims: "I am
continually shocked at the dangerous public policy positions of
the organized medical lobby. The distortion and outright
fabrication of ‘facts’ is well documented and refuted in the
criminologic literature, and the thought that physicians would
actually lobby for such counterproductive and dangerous
legislation is worrisome indeed."
DSGL provides a voice for those doctors who feel
the need to speak out for
honesty and integrity. The motto of the new organization, "First,
do no harm", is taken from the Hippocratic Oath, and refers
to the harm done by
misguided gun laws.
Members of the press are invited to contact Dr.
William Rogers by email
at: Doctors@KeepAndBearArms.com
or
by phone at: (603) 909-0557.
DSGL is available
at any time to comment on any gun related story, and
a great deal of useful information is available on the web site
for anyone researching the gun
policy debate as it relates to the medical community and their 'studies'.
Medical doctors, PhD's, and other health care
professionals are invited
to visit the web site for membership information.
http://www.KeepAndBearArms.com/DSGL
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