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USA –  -(Ammoland.com)- They’re at it again, so we are too.

“They” are the ‘gun violence is a public health issue’ crowd, who keep propounding theories about how guns should be treated as autonomous risk factors for injury and death.

DRGO will keep setting them straight.  If we weren’t volunteers, we’d thank them for keeping us so busy.

The big news from the front this week was an article appearing May 16 2016 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Yes, You Can: Physicians, Patients, and Firearms by Garen Wintemute and two other MD/MPH’s. 

Mr. Hankins and you and I all have equal rights to free speech, to be secure in our “homes and possessions”, and to “keep and bear arms”. Let’s keep it that way.

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USA –  -(Ammoland.com)- A unifying principle of American law governing the defensive use of deadly force is that a victim may use such force when an attacker threatens violence capable of causing death or grave bodily harm.

There is little doubt that it is justified when the robber draws and points a handgun at the victim.

But what if an unarmed assailant advances with fists clenched, clearly getting ready to beat his victim?  Should the victim take a few punches and hope he remains conscious long enough to draw and shoot, thus stopping his attacker? At what point short of being beaten to a bloody, crippled pulp can the victim still convince a jury that he feared he was about to die or be forever damaged?