Thursday, January 17, 2013

The CDC's climategate Remembering why the CDC was blocked from conduct research on guns #2ndamendment #tcot #tlot

Obama Directs His Executive Power at America’s Gun Owners - By Timothy Wheeler - The Corner - National Review Online

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/337935/obama-s-directs-his-executive-power-america-s-gun-owners-timothy-wheeler


....”Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.”.....


.....”Memories are short. It was only 15 years ago that Congress cut off federal funding for the Centers for Disease Control’s gun research. Top CDC officials such as Patrick O’Carroll, M.D.,
had said things like “We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths. We’re doing the most we can do, given the political realities.”
Nor was Congress pleased that the CDC had funded in the spring of 1995 a newsletter from the San Francisco gun-control group the Trauma Foundation. This newsletter advised “advocates” to “organize a picket at gun manufacturing sites” and to “work for campaign finance reform to
weaken the gun lobby’s clout.” There’s no reason to believe the CDC will not again use taxpayer millions to pay for more anti-gun-rights pamphleteering.”....

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