CDC puts anti-gun politics over science

[dyno dan]

"As astute gun owners know, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has been engaged in gun control politics for decades.
In the 1990s, their gun control activism most often took the form of
funding anti-gun social “science” aimed at convincing Americans and
policymakers to forego and diminish the right to keep and bear arms.
Now further evidence has come out showing that the agency not only
promotes junk science, but suppresses legitimate research into the
benefits of gun ownership.

In mid-December, internet publication The Reload published an article
titled, “Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After
Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting.” The
item detailed email correspondence between the CDC and anti-gun
activists in which gun control supporters sought to suppress research
from Florida State University Criminology Professor Gary Kleck
indicating that Americans use firearms to defend themselves millions
of times per year on the agency’s website."

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230104/cdc-puts-anti-gun-politics-over-science


-dan z-

[Klaus Schadenfreude]

Post by dyno dan
"As astute gun owners know, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) has been engaged in gun control politics for decades.
In the 1990s, their gun control activism most often took the form of
funding anti-gun social “science” aimed at convincing Americans and
policymakers to forego and diminish the right to keep and bear arms.
Now further evidence has come out showing that the agency not only
promotes junk science, but suppresses legitimate research into the
benefits of gun ownership.
In mid-December, internet publication The Reload published an article
titled, “Emails Show CDC Removed Defensive Gun Use Stats After
Gun-Control Advocates Pressured Officials in Private Meeting.” The
item detailed email correspondence between the CDC and anti-gun
activists in which gun control supporters sought to suppress research
from Florida State University Criminology Professor Gary Kleck
indicating that Americans use firearms to defend themselves millions
of times per year on the agency’s website."
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20230104/cdc-puts-anti-gun-politics-over-science

Maybe if they worked on DISEASE CONTROL instead of guns we wouldn't
have had to shut down for COVID. Just a thought.