CDC And NIH Are Weaponized Against The Second Amendment

By JP Pichardo

CDC and NIH Are Weaponized Against Gun Owners
Federal grants by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) are being weaponized to attack our Second Amendment rights under the guise of “public health” research. Last year, gun owners learned exactly what the so-called “public health treatment” for “gun violence” is when Governor Grisham banned self-defense in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
But the anti-gunners didn’t only think up this public health approach to gun control last year, this is something GOA has been fighting in Washington, D.C. since the early 1990’s. Back in the day, GOA helped expose a 1993 CDC “study” which blatantly recommended a national gun purchase registry and criminalization of possession of unregistered handguns.[i] Around the same time a CDC spokesman Dr. Mark Rosenberg made a famously tyrannical comment that:

“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes … It used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol—cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly—and banned.”[ii]

This led to the creation of what was known as the “Dickey Amendment”—which has been included in every government funding bill since 1994. It’s very simple: “None of the funds made available in

Source: Gun Owners of America