DRGO’s 1996 Congressional Testimony: Defunding Gun Control Politics at the CDC

By Ammoland

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Just this week we received the raw data, scanned files of the transcript of our testimony.

Recently I’ve written a lot about when an internal medicine specialist, a neurosurgeon, and I testified before the House Appropriations Committee recommending that Congress refuse to pay for gun control-motivated junk science. We had all independently become aware of and alarmed by the trend of medical journals and societies using their prestige to generate results-oriented research articles that all carried the same message – guns are like virus, and owning them is a disease.

Part of the public health-gun ban lobby axis, we had discovered, was the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The CDC had noble origins of fighting infectious diseases such as malaria that are rare in America today, but once regularly took lives. With its adoption under the federal government in what is now the Department of Health and Human Services, it took on the aggressive posture of all federal bureaucracies by expanding its mission.

In the 1990s influential bureaucrats at the CDC found another deadly …Read the Rest

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