A Letter to the Gun-Grabbing Mayor of Richmond, Virginia

[The following is a letter sent by Dennis Petrocelli, MD to Richmond, Virginia Mayor Levar Stoney regarding hizzoner’s proposal to ban firearms near permitted events in the city.} Dear Mayor Stoney, Congratulations on distinguishing yourself as a newly-minted member of the elite circle of “guns for me, none for thee” authoritarian rulers. Although you saw … Read more

Bad Medicine: Gun Control Advocacy Doesn’t Stand Up to the Facts

By Dennis Petrocelli, MD Dr. Patrick Neustatter recently penned an op-ed for the Fredricksburg Star supporting typical “common sense” gun control legislation. I feel for my colleague because I too once believed the medical mythology that guns are bad and need to be “eradicated.” Over the past year — I celebrate my first guniversary next week — I’ve opened … Read more

Virginia’s Legislature Has Become a Fact-Free Gun Zone

By Dennis Petrocelli, MD If the Bloomberg-financed gun confiscation crowd gets anything right, it is their consistently beguiling messaging. In the same way that The Force in Star Wars bends the will of the weak-minded, confiscationists use language that requires us first to disabuse the public of their empty rhetoric before we can actually discuss the facts about … Read more