The Trump Administration has announced plans to cut 10,000 federal employees under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the parent organization for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has pursued an anti-gun agenda for the past decade or so.
The move will make it harder for the CDC to fund anti-gun research intended to show results favorable to gun-ban advocates, and that is drawing the ire of gun control groups who have relied on slanted CDC research to bolster their outrageous claims.
The gun-ban organization Brady, formerly called Handgun Control Inc., immediately attacked the Trump Administration’s “guns everywhere” agenda.
“The dismantling of CDC’s injury data collection team is nothing short of a public health catastrophe, and the latest strategic move to consolidate information control under President Trump,” Brady President Kris Brown said in a news release. “CDC’s WISQARS is a crucial tool that informs our understanding of America’s gun violence epidemic. Without it, we’re cast into the dark as to the scope of the number one killer of kids in this country. But this latest assault doesn’t come as a surprise; it tracks completely with the administration’s autocratic tendencies. Stemming the flow of knowledge is a tactic that has been deployed throughout history to control the public, and today’s news is a prime example of history repeating itself.”
Whoo boy! Not to be outdone, the group Giffords called the cuts a “reckless move (that) puts us all at risk.”
Of course, the reaction to the Trump Administration’s move by those on the pro-Second Amendment side of the argument was quite different. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said that, hopefully, the cuts would take the CDC out of the gun control arena.
“With these reductions, the government is no longer treating gun ownership as a communicable disease,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Ever since the CDC inserted itself into the gun rights debate, the agency has spent millions of dollars to promote the notion that gun-related violence is a public health issue, and they’ve mostly gotten away with it, thanks largely to their allies in the media treating everything they say as gospel. But it’s not a ‘health crisis,’ it’s a crime problem, and the antidote is not restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners, which CDC research invariably seems to suggest, but instead restricting the freedom of violent repeat offenders.”
Gottlieb added that anti-gun groups wailing over the CDC cuts are making a big deal over something that has never effectively curtailed violent crime.
“One complaint we’ve heard is that these cuts have ‘decimated’ staff responsible for so-called ‘gun violence research and prevention,’ but so far all of this research does not appear to have prevented a single violent crime,” he said. “Instead, we see declarations that more research is needed, while anti-gunners use CDC data to erode Second Amendment rights. That sounds like a perpetual ‘make work’ effort to keep the public funding flowing while gun owners are essentially treated like plague carriers or lepers.”
Gunz is a disease. You never want to catch guns, specially if they are falling. You can’t be inoculated gainst guns. Once you get guns, you keep getting more guns. There is no cure. The only way to cope is through acceptance. “Hi! My name is Lifesavor, and I have gunz.”
Don’t tell the Center for Deception and Corruption, but they cannot help…there ain’t nuthin they can do.
Shoot. I don’t want to be cured, anyway.
I’m sure I’ve got it too.
I’m coughing up money right now because the fever has hit its HiPoint.
Gun propaganda of the day: A poster of a smoking gun, and above it written in block letters “LEAD POISONING IS A COMMUNICABLE DISEASE”
The lies told are getting so old. “Public health catastrophe”? Really? “Epidemic of gun violence”? “Number one killer of children”? Not even close. Fewer that 20,000 murders a year has no comparison as a “public health catastrophe” or “epidemic” to the number of kids killed off by fentanyl, heroin, meth, plus cancer and other actual diseases. Their entire platform is based on nothing but fear.
Let’s not overlook car wrecks and drowning.
Test
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Negatively positive
The CDC’s time would be better spent trying to keep quack doctors and hospitals from being sued for medical malpractice.
Keeping them from being sued, or stopping them from being quacks?
For an apolitical, nonpartisan agency seems like all the cries are a little one sided. Just like with USAID.
Funny, that.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
– – Ayn Rand
I’m sure I’ve got it too.
I’m coughing up money right now because the fever has hit its HiPoint.
YeetCannon?
“WISQARS” indeed. Looks like there need to be some DOGE cuts to the Department of Annoyingly Cute Acronyms.
“Looks like there need to be some DOGE cuts to the Department of Annoyingly Cute Acronyms.”
It is a scandal that DOGE didn’t have Trump eliminate the Department of Redundancy Department on day one.
RFK can always blame miasma and prescribe a course of blood letting by leaches to restore the humors.
Would have killed fewer people than NY with our Covid response.
When people start going to prison, I hope the leaders of the CDC and their minions, who took bribes from Pfizer, head that way too. I no longer have any trust in the agency.