- 1993 founded Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO)
- 1996 Helped de-fund the CDC Gun Control Spending
- 1997 The Dickey Amendment to the appropriations bill
Testified before the House Appropriations Committee
how the CDC had used taxpayer money to lobby for gun control
– https://drgo.us/drgo-in-media/john-edeen-md-media-2/
– https://drgo.us

quotes from P.W. O’Carroll, MD — he was the acting head of the Division of Injury Control at the CDC. He was quoted in JAMA [subscription required] on Feb. 3, 1989, as saying, “We are going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths. We are doing the most we can do given the political realities.” He later said he’d been misquoted.
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