Why even watch the video?

I ran across this story: Former CDC Doc: You Can Reduce Gun Deaths Without Restricting Guns. I was going to watch the video, but after reading the intro..

Why bother?

“More people die from gun deaths than from car accidents every year in the United States.”

Not according to the CDC’s WISQARS.

Year MVA Firearms
2016 40,528 38,658
2015 38,022 36,252
2014 35,647 33,594
2013 35,612 33,636
2012 36,654 33,563

“However, while research-based policies have reduced motor vehicle deaths, federal research on firearm deaths is nearly non-existent.”

“Nearly” is such a useful term when you want to lie without… quite lying. The federal government does fund research into firearms-related deaths. It’s difficult to find a summary of such funding, but from checking individual papers (just where the funding is explicitly listed) it appears that the feds fund it to the tune of several hundred thousands of dollar per year. At least.

“That’s due to the Dickey Amendment, which says Centers for Disease Control funding cannot be used to promote gun control.”

The Dickey Amendment only addressed CDC operations, because it was caught diverting research funds to gun control advocacy; i.e.- they weren’t researching. Other organizations like the NIH have been free to study firearms, and do.

“Soledad O’Brien sits down with Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who formerly oversaw gun violence research at the CDC”

In fact, Rosenberg was the victim-disarming gun control promoter at the CDC who caused the passage of the Dickey Amendment, largely with this statement: “We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like we did with cigarettes. Now it [sic] is dirty, deadly and banned.”

That’s right; he’s the one who was diverting money away from real research, and to — very likely illegal — political activism.

I did try to watch the video, though. And stopped when O’Brien flat out stated that the Dickey Amendment was passed to stop research.

Don’t bother; it’s just biased media lying to push its agenda again. Still. Constantly.


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One thought on “Why even watch the video?”

  1. Thanks for doing the hard work so we don’t have to. Not that I was going to watch that stuff anyway, but still, thanks for informing us. I actually seldom watch or consume any news programs anymore. I prefer to learn from people like you, and several others, who always seem to be in the right place at the right time.
    I actually did an experiment a few weeks ago. I was at the library, and took several of the various news magazines, such as Newsweek, Time, etc. and sat down and read a few articles from each. I confirmed something that had been nagging at me, but I couldn’t put my finger on. Some of the more ” mainstream” news magazines, and tv shows, which I checked out later, are very subtle in their liberalism. They don’t always out and out lie, or speak liberal words. But what you can count on them to always pick stories that are liberal, or to quote experts who are almost fringe characters, they are so extreme.
    The television news shows are of course, the same. Although lately, I see that Chris Matthews has begun to try and hit back at some of his fellow newsies, actually calling them out for their liberal bias. I am not holding my breath that he is changing, but what I suspect is happening is that he realizes that he had become so far left of where he wanted to be, and used to be, that he is starting to attempt to make strides back towards a more central place. The sad thing is that he doesn’t need to be left, right, or center. He just needs to be fair. If Trump does something questionable, jump him for it, and don’t back down until you are satisfied that you have either gotten the truth, or forced him to recant. But if Chuckie Schumer says some dumb thing like the Democrats will fight the SCOTUS nominee, no matter who it is, then you must jump on him with both feet as well.
    Nobody wants a news journalist who hides their own political preferences. What they want is someone who can tell us, ” I am a left leaning Democrat, but I am still going to report the news, truthfully, and hold both parties just as accountable no matter who it is.” That is a person, man or woman, whom I would respect, and would look forward to listening to, just to hear their take on the events of the day.
    I am not holding my breath waiting for the first one to step up and try this. But it would be a change.

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