If CDC Funding of Gun Research is a Good Idea, Let’s Not Stop There

By Johannes Paulsen

It’s a sign of the popularity of the gun rights movement — and the tremendous success we continue to have in winning elections, court cases, and ‘hearts and minds’ generally — that the anti gun folks have shifted from the objective they pursued during my childhood of trying to ban handguns (as Josh Sugarmann, founder of the Violence Policy Center advocated in his 2001 book,) to fighting for public funding to propagandize in favor of gun control via the CDC. It’s almost as if they’ve said to themselves, “Well…what the hell? We might as well give it a try. It’s not like anything else is working.” . . .

The anti-gun extremists do have a few cards up their sleeve, of course, and having a ready supply of fellow travellers and useful idiots in the legacy media is one of them. Dr. Timothy Wheeler has done an excellent job of outlining the rather serious problems with CNN’s recent opinion piece masquerading as a news article in favor of anti-gun extremists who claim that the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) should “do something” about gun violence.

As is made clear in his writing, the CDC had been …Read the Rest

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