California Republicans Betray 2nd Amendment

By Gregory Smith

SellingTheSecondAmendment.com

The liberals want to treat the 2nd Amendment as a public health crisis, and Jay Dickey, who was pro-gun in the past, has become anti-gun in the present:

California legislators have proposed a way to do what Congress will not — study gun violence, just as we would study any other public health crisis. All we can say is: How soon can we begin?
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Rosenberg was the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Control and Prevention in 1996 when the Dickey Amendment, which banned any CDC funding that would “advocate or promote gun control,” was tacked on to an appropriations bill. Today, former Rep. Jay Dickey, R-Ark., seeks redemption. In 2012, he and Rosenberg co-wrote an opinion piece seeking federal funding of firearms research. Now friends, they have pursued the cause of reversing the ban but to no avail.

In February, they threw their support behind state Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, whose SB1006would ask the University of California to create a center to study and gather evidence about the causes and prevention of firearm injuries. “Instead of fighting those who want to melt the guns down, and those who want no regulation …Read the Rest

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