Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Talk About Yer Ideological Stubbornness
persistent as a horsefly
More than a decade after Congress cut funding for firearms research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), another federal health agency has been spending millions of dollars to study such topics as whether teenagers who carry firearms run a different risk of getting shot compared with suffering other sorts of injuries. [cost: $642,561]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) also has been financing research to investigate whether having many liquor stores in a neighborhood puts people at greater risk of getting shot.
erm… duh. Why this would even need a $1 “study” is beyond me.
[Don Ralbovsky, NIH spokesman] “Gun related violence is a public health problem - it diverts considerable health care resources away from other problems and, therefore, is of interest to NIH, ...
“These particular grants do not address gun control; rather they deal with the surrounding web of circumstances involved in many violent crimes, especially how alcohol policy may reduce the public health burden from gun-related injury and death,"
Funny how “choosing to be a dumbass-gang-banger” is not a part of this study. Nor how there came to be so many unemployed, unmotivated youth hanging out on street corners [*cough*War on Poverty*cough*] Odd how “keeping MS-13 from swarming en mass across the border” wasn’t even mentioned. Nor studying how “gun-free” societies like England deal with street violence—or is a cricket-bat beating easier [cheaper] to treat?
No. These Progressives in their Infinite Wisdom™ are still trying to legislate utopia.
Ahh, yes—here’s the phrase:
"Whether the members of Congress like it or not, gun violence is a public health problem in America today.” [Peter Hamm, spokesman for the Washington-based Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]
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