By Wayne LaPierre
FAIRFAX, Va. –-(Ammoland.com)- With the stroke of his royal pen, President Barack Obama declared that federal law in the form of a 17-year congressional funding ban on gun-control “research” at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was trumped by his personal decree through an executive order restoring the CDC’s junk-science agenda.
Were I to choose a single word to define this action, it would be “outlaw.” The law forbidding expenditures by CDC to promote gun control still stands. It cannot be erased by an executive order. But this is President Obama, his rule and his rules.
As with so many other Obama executive actions disregarding federal law or ignoring Congress or the courts, this one has born poisonous fruit in the form of a voluminous manifesto. In this case, it’s entitled, Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearms-Related Violence.
Produced by the National Academy of Sciences (for the CDC), the research agenda was “supported by awards between the National Academy of Sciences and both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the CDC Foundation, the California Endowment, the Joyce Foundation, Kaiser Permanente, one anonymous donor …”
Anonymous donor? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg or George Soros perhaps? After all, the deep-pocket largesse of the Joyce Foundation is the only reason the Violence Policy Center can keep its doors open.
To give you an idea of what is coming as a result of massive financial commingling of federal tax dollars, hidden billionaire donors and gun-ban foundations, let me give you a taste of the “Alice in Wonderland” world to come.
Under the heading, “Firearms-Related Violence as a Public Health Issue,” the report demands that “a public health approach should be incorporated into the strategies used to prevent future harm and injuries. Violence, including firearm related violence, has been shown to be contagious. Recognizing this, the academic community has suggested that research examine violence much like is done for contagious diseases.”
How twisted is that? Gun ownership treated as a contagious disease.
The central purpose of the proposed “research” should be intensely alarming for all Americans who believe in the Second Amendment.
The single most dangerous “research” among the CDC findings is a demand for collection of personal, private information on all law-abiding firearm owners and our guns. In the vision of the gun control researchers, such data would form the basis of the projected “science.” Throughout the document—no, it’s a manifesto—are references to the creation of this centralized database on the “scope and motivations for gun acquisition ownership and use and how they are distributed across subpopulations.” Subpopulations? Criminals, youth and “the general population.”
Of course, the only information that can be collected and centralized will be data on the law abiding. Criminals are, after all, in the shadows.
This notion of an all-invasive, all-seeing federal database is the core of every subset of research proposed. The agenda is spiked with similar references seeking “the exact number and distribution of guns currently in homes … Basic information about gun possession, acquisition, and storage is lacking. No single database captures the total number, locations, and types of firearms and firearms owners in the United States.”
“The exact number and distribution of guns and gun types in the United States are unknown, but for each of these populations, it would be valuable to have counts of total guns owned, their attributes [i.e., general type, caliber, firing mechanism], how the guns were acquired [i.e., purchased, received as a gift, traded for, stolen, etc.] and information on the sources of the guns [i.e., licensed gun dealers, friends or relatives, gun traffickers, owners of stolen guns, and so on].”
This is the worldview of gun ownership as a “public health” disease.
Want more proof of the direction of this illegal Obama effort?
If you want a simple summation of what that the new CDC “public health” newspeak means, look to the past, because when it comes to the CDC, the past is the future.
In the Jan. 4, 1994, American Medical News, Dr. Katherine Christhoff, who headed a lobbying group established by the Joyce Foundation to support and disseminate the 1990s CDC agenda, wrote:
“Guns are a virus that must be eradicated.”
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Junk-Science
These people need to figure out what causes people to become so worthless and consumed with hatred of an object while being oblivious to the actual cause of the problem. Something is seriously wrong with these people and Im sure what ever it is it is hard to pronounce. It must be a slow time with actual diseases. If they have time to devote to junk science,then maybe try to figure out what changes normal people into liberals
And there you have it… The real reason for the Second Amendment! Protection from despots dictators and mad men.
Excuse me, but junk science does not drive Barry Soetoro’s (alias Obama’s) gun control schemes. A devout belief in Marxist-Stalinist political ideology and a Second Bolshevik Revolution agenda drives Soetoro’s gun control schemes. Junk Science is just his deception methodology for the rubes who don’t know any better or don’t care.
I have a dream. Of one day being judged by my actions and not my gun ownership. I have a dream.