Press release: ‘Keeping your family safe’ focuses on firearm ownership and safety
Press release:
(Peoria, IL / December 7, 2009) – Looking for the perfect stocking stuffer that focuses on the safety of your family? The newly released book “Keeping Your Family Safe – The Responsibilities of Firearm Ownership” fits the bill.
Written by two physicians, one an emergency medicine physician at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL, “Keeping Your Family Safe” focuses on safety and the responsibilities of firearm ownership. Included are chapters on firearm safety rules, storage options, how to child proof a gun and how to gun-proof a child, ethics, laws of self-defense, and the importance of proper firearm training.
Emergency medicine physician Dr. John Wipfler and surgeon Dr. Timothy Wheeler decided to write the book after seeing too many children injured or killed by the careless handling and storage of guns. According to the authors, more than half of all American homes have one or more guns. The book provides effective alternatives for defending your family and ways to keep your community safe.
Drs. Wipfler and Wheeler are both trained in firearm use. Dr. Wipfler has 21 years experience as a board-certified emergency medicine physician, served 14 years in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, and 15 years as a law enforcement officer who has been involved in over 100 SWAT callouts.
“Keeping Your Family Safe” is now available at Barnes and Noble and online at Amazon. The 131 page book sells for $20.
About the Authors:
E. John Wipfler III, MD, FACEP is a clinical associate professor at the University Of Illinois College Of Medicine and attending emergency physician at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, a Level I trauma center. Dr. Wipfler is the Medical Director for an agency providing tactical emergency medicine support (TEMS) for three tactical teams, has been involved in over 100 SWAT callouts, and serves as the Sheriff’s Physician with the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department. He co-chairs the TEMS committee with the Illinois Tactical Officers Association and Illinois Department of Public Health. He has 14 years of military experience with the United States Army Reserve Medical Corps. He is a certified firearms safety instructor and has completed firearms training with the U.S. Army, Chapman Academy, InSights Training Center, Combat Casualty Care Course, CONTOMS, the Heckler & Koch TEMS International Training Division, and serves as an instructor with the International School of Tactical Medicine.
Timothy W. Wheeler, MD is the director of Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO), a Project of the Claremont Institute. DRGO is a nationwide group of physicians, scientists, medical students, and others who support the safe and lawful use of firearms. Dr. Wheeler is a surgeon practicing in Ontario, California. He has taken training in the moral, ethical, legal, and tactical aspects of defensive firearm use at the Lethal Force Institute. He has passed the Tactical Handgun course, Parts I and II at the Tactical Firearms Training Team. Dr. Wheeler’s articles on firearm policy have appeared in the Washington Times, the Miami Herald, National Review Online, and others. Television appearances have included Fox News television, CBS This Morning and 60 Minutes.
Billy Dennis is a former reporter and editor at small daily and weekly newspapers in Illinois and Missouri. He comments on media, news and politics. He also owns and operates 
Thank you for sharing this. The reality of crime and police inability to prevent crime means we have to change the street equation. Citizenry trained and carrying fire arms is the only thing we have not tried here even as other states are seeing success with this. The time is now for Mayor Ardis to make a move on this.