OPINION: Outing a Psychiatry Professor as Anti-Gun


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By Lee Williams. Mar 20, 2026

OPINION: No one who truly values their Second Amendment rights should be worried that University of Michigan psychiatry professor Brian M. Hicks, PhD, is gaining fame and making money by passing off anti-gun propaganda as legitimate research, right?

After all, it's a free country. Professor Hicks can make a dollar and a name for himself however he sees fit, right?

If the good professor twists some questionable data and bizarre opinions together and then calls it legitimate research, that too shouldn't matter, right?

Now, if a peer-reviewed medical journal founded in 1883, which is published 48 times a year and read by physicians across the country and around the globe, takes Professor Hicks' scribbles and calls them actual research without labeling his work as anti-gun propaganda or even opinion, that too isn't a problem, right?

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