Over the past several decades, the CDC has become increasingly politically motivated. And on top of that, even though they label themselves as bureaucratic “experts” they tend to get a massive amount of things consistently wrong and are never held accountable for it.

When you combine bureaucracy and political ideology, you don’t tend to get much of anything unless it is used as a means to fuel the ideology of those in power. So not surprisingly, the CDC is using your tax dollars to fund biased and likely misleading research to try and “prove” that we would all be safer if the government took all the guns.

Here is a list of studies that the CDC is funding to “produce an outcome which may be used to advocate or promote gun control,” according to Gun Owners of America:

$1,100,000 to study the “relationship between lawful gun ownership and risk”;[iii]

$490,000 to study “a state with Constitutional Carry versus a state with strict gun control”;[iv]

$333,000 to “evaluate” gun confiscation laws and gun purchase wait periods in California;[v]

$518,000 “to enhance policy implementation” of “expanded background checks, [in]secure firearm storage requirements” and gun confiscation laws in Michigan;[vi]

$3,600,000 to study “firearm retirement” for senior citizens which “will strongly parallel (key but not all) aspects of driving retirement”;[vii]

$650,000 to study “firearm prohibitions and relinquishment”;[viii]

$1,200,000 to run a study including “in person and telehealth wellness check-ins” which explicitly include “safety (e.g., guns at home…)”;[ix]

$428,000 to study how “episodic crime reports… that depict violence as a ‘crime’ issue… can lead audiences to blame victims [and] reinforce racist stereotypes”;[x]

$349,000 to find out if state gun control “firearm laws reduce mortality”;[xi]

$126,000 to find out why Black Americans are six times more likely “to experience an assault-related firearm injury” as White Americans;[xii]

$2,100,000 “to inform evidence-based interventions that prevent firearm injury risks involving Asian Americans” caused by their mere “firearm possession;”[xiii] and more.

Interesting how the same government agency that advocated for taking away Americans' freedoms during the Panny D, at the expense of public health, also is responsible for biased studies that may be used to argue in favor of taking away our God-given right to bear arms. Why do you think that is?

At best, this is our tax dollars at waste (not that that is anything new), and at worst, an attempt to justify why the government should take these rights away.

If the Panny D taught any of us anything it is that when the CDC is involved, chances are that "the science" is being consumed by political science. And political science is the last thing we need when it comes to public health.

Our public health institutions have, arguably, been captured, and that is not how science works.

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