Posted on 03/08/2019 5:01:53 AM PST by richardb72
Democrats in the U.S. House are likely to approve spending $50 million in taxpayer funds for public health research on gun violence. While that may sound like a good idea at first glance, it really wouldn’t do anything to reduce gun violence in our country.
I testified Thursday before the House Appropriations Committee’s health subcommittee to inject facts into the discussion of the Democratic bill.
It should go without saying that everyone opposes gun violence. But it’s important to take effective measures to deal with this problem and not simply take actions that sound appealing but won’t really save lives.
The idea behind the $50 million in research funding is to have medical professionals apply tools they developed to study cancer, heart disease and other diseases and use them to study crime, accidental death and suicide. But to state the obvious, gun violence and diseases are two very different things.
The National Rifle Association – regularly demonized in the media and by many Democrats – has been blamed for preventing academics from doing research on firearms. So supporters of the bill that would spend $50 million to research gun violence as a public health issue say their bill is needed to stop the NRA from blocking vital research that will save lives.
But there’s a big problem with the argument: it’s not true. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
“It should go without saying that everyone opposes gun violence. “
“Gun violence”, another badly defined term. If gun violence includes using a gun to resist a home invasion, not everyone opposes gun violence, not all of it anyway.
These crooks are scam artists of the most massive proportions. They've never seen a tax dollar they wouldn't steal for their own pet causes.
Buy more guns and ammo, folks. Leftists wang you dead.
JoMa
Or ‘want’ you dead. Gotta love that the ‘g’ is just below the ‘t’ on the keyboard. I really need to proof read before hitting post.
JoMa
“The idea behind the $50 million in research funding is to have Democrat medical professionals apply tools they developed to study cancer, heart disease and other diseases and use them to study crime, accidental death and suicide, and donate a sizeable portion of their grants to the Democrat party.”
It’s what they meant.
“...to push for states to formally put nutcases (as we did prior to the 1960s) into state mental facilities.”
Now, we have Red Flag laws so that if there’s a nutcase in your home and a judge finds out, all the guns in your home are seized by the police.
Dems want $50 million for biased research.
Lobbyist money must be thin now days.
But not one dollar for The Wall from these worthless Demon Rats.
“Gun violence.” Guns are not violent.
Another BS term like “assault weapon.”
KMA pelousy, upchucky and All the rest of the demonratcommiescumbags!!!!
BUILD ME A WALL!!!
How about this, it would take many hundreds of centuries for North American criminals (plus the few Adam Lanzas and Eric Harrises and Dylan Klebolds) to equal the number murdered by governments who did not trust their citizenry with firearms in just one.
They can make up all the “research” they want.
But at the the end of the day, Molon Labe.
That’s what we have them for: THAT day.
$50 million would build a nice wall.
We need to go down to DC and stand outside the Capitol Building with a large banner that says :”We Came Unarmed-This Time’’. Been thinking about organizing a caravan of buses to do it.
The problem is that when leftists pay for research by “Scientists” or historians it ends up being all Fake. They even had to rescind a Bancroft Prize for History due to leftist fabrication on firearms.
They are the Armed Doctrine and they kill and lie — its in their nature.
This is a smoke screen by the anti gun democrats. they want to get the CDC to declare guns or gun violence a health problem where they can confiscate all the guns from law abiding citizens. That would be a real health crisis for the law abiding people when only MS13 types will have guns.
This is a smoke screen by the anti gun democrats. they want to get the CDC to declare guns or gun violence a health problem where they can confiscate all the guns from law abiding citizens. That would be a real health crisis for the law abiding people when only MS13 types will have guns.
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