The feds take a shot at guns

[TxD]

It's a health issue.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/200 ... t-at-guns/#" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"For a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been forbidden by Congress from doing research on gun-control issues. Such piddling hurdles as federal law don't matter to the Obama administration."

"With a wave of a hand, the CDC has simply redefined gun-control research so the ban no longer applies. They're not researching guns; they're researching alcohol sales and their impact on gun violence, or researching how teens carrying guns affect the rates of non-gun injuries. "These particular grants do not address gun control; rather they deal with the surrounding web of circumstances," wrote National Institutes of Health (NIH) spokesman Don Ralbovsky."

"The research on right-to-carry laws illustrates the problem with the CDC. Dozens of refereed academic studies by economists and criminologists using national data have been published in journals. While the vast majority of those studies find that right-to-carry laws save lives and reduce harm to victims, some studies claim that the laws have no statistically significant effect. But most tellingly, there is not a single published refereed academic study by a criminologist or economist showing a bad effect from these laws."

[Purplehood]

I wish that the article had gone into some details on the "Congressional ban" and "Federal Laws" that prohibit this back-door approach to gun-control issues.

[chamberc]

I think it would be more productive to have the CDC research the harm Congress does, as well as their increased scope of interference in my life.

[bdickens]

Is it really surprising the Chicago gangsters would do this?