The Case Against Researching Guns As Public Health Crisis

By Tom Knighton

Following Las Vegas and Sutherland Springs, the anti-gun left has started beating some of their favorite war drums. However, this time around they’re resurrecting one from a bygone era when they really thought they could take away all of our guns. This one was using taxpayer funds to “research” guns as a public health crisis.

They did this before, and it was a problem then just as it is now. From Dean Rieck of the Buckeye Firearms Association:

Look back at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the 1990s. Officials in this government agency brazenly supported gun bans and spent millions of public dollars for so-called research to support their agenda. One of the lead CDC researchers was quoted saying, “We’re going to systematically build the case that owning firearms causes deaths.”

Others spoke even more bluntly about research intended to “convince Americans that guns are, first and foremost, a public health menace” and to “form a public health model to work toward changing society’s attitudes towards guns so that it becomes socially unacceptable for private citizens to have guns.”

Don’t misunderstand. I’m not saying that I or any gun owner distrusts true science. Scientific research is at the …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms