How One of the Country's Loudest Anti-Gun
Doctors Gets Data for His Anti-gun Stories

Michael L. Nance, MD, is a very busy man.

He is chief of the Division of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, and director of the Pediatric Trauma Program at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, which is known as "CHOP."

Nance has also been called both an associate and an investigator for CHOP's Center for Violence Prevention, which is almost violently anti-gun.

The Center for Violence Prevention publicly supports wild anti-gun policies such as mandatory child-access laws, universal background checks, strict limits on "assault-style weaponry," court-ordered firearm storage laws and, of course, more funding for firearm-related research, which of course would be paid directly to the Center for Violence Prevention.

Nance has written scores of articles on what he believes are the perils of guns and gun ownership, including 2020's "Most Mass Shootings Occur Within a Mile of a School or a Place Where Children Live, Learn and Play."

"Firearms are the second leading cause of trauma-related death in children in our Trauma Centers," Nance said in the news release announcing his work. …