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<blockquote data-quote="Glocktogo" data-source="post: 2574621" data-attributes="member: 1132">The CDC, in conjunction with the AMA and it&#039;s publication JAMA, have long held the view that gun ownership and by extension &quot;gun violence&quot; are a public health epidemic. They want all guns banned, period! It got so bad that Congress wrote a law that banned the CDC from further gun studies in 1996. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/12/why-the-centers-for-disease-control-should-not-receive-gun-research-funding/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/12/why-the-centers-for-disease-control-should-not-receive-gun-research-funding/</a>I&#039;m not against CDC publishing statistics per-se, but they have a known and documented anti-gun bias. Most of the studies they funded were debunked as &quot;junk science&quot;. In other words, scientific standards and protocols were not adhered to. They never once funded any objective studies. For that reason, nothing they publish on guns should be viewed as reliable. The article the OP posted specifically leads one to believe that guns in the hands of the public are bad. It categorizes accidents and suicides as &quot;gun violence&quot;. This is the language THEY used, not me. By that standard, all car deaths are &quot;car violence&quot;. It&#039;s ridiculous on the face of it. It isn&#039;t any different than categorizing a 25 year old gang banger getting killed in a gang war as a &quot;child death&quot;. These are the reasons that I do not support gun studies by the CDC. Guns are not a &quot;disease&quot;. You&#039;re free to disagree, but that doesn&#039;t change the facts. <img src="/images/smilies/frown.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :(" data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Glocktogo, post: 2574621, member: 1132"] The CDC, in conjunction with the AMA and it's publication JAMA, have long held the view that gun ownership and by extension "gun violence" are a public health epidemic. They want all guns banned, period! It got so bad that Congress wrote a law that banned the CDC from further gun studies in 1996. [url]http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/02/12/why-the-centers-for-disease-control-should-not-receive-gun-research-funding/[/url] I'm not against CDC publishing statistics per-se, but they have a known and documented anti-gun bias. Most of the studies they funded were debunked as "junk science". In other words, scientific standards and protocols were not adhered to. They never once funded any objective studies. For that reason, nothing they publish on guns should be viewed as reliable. The article the OP posted specifically leads one to believe that guns in the hands of the public are bad. It categorizes accidents and suicides as "gun violence". This is the language THEY used, not me. By that standard, all car deaths are "car violence". It's ridiculous on the face of it. It isn't any different than categorizing a 25 year old gang banger getting killed in a gang war as a "child death". These are the reasons that I do not support gun studies by the CDC. Guns are not a "disease". You're free to disagree, but that doesn't change the facts. :( [/QUOTE]

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