GUN CONTROL: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL: POLITICS OVER MEDICINE?
The purpose of language is to convey meaning in clear, concise, and understandable terms, not to promote a malignant ideology and agenda that has resulted in the deaths and suffering of millions of individuals worldwide. Hence, George Orwell’s prescient warning about the perversion and bastardization of language to drive a political narrative or confuse and conflate meanings so the aggrieved cannot accurately describe their grievance.
Political correctness invades science and medicine…
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Corrections & Detentions
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Why I am pointing this out…
It appears that the CDC’s Director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, is attempting to pervert the mission of the CDC and manipulate language to curtail your constitutional rights, especially in circumvention of the Constitution’s Second Amendment.
CNN EXCLUSIVE 'Something has to be done': After decades of near-silence from the CDC, the agency's director is speaking up about gun violence
'I'm not here about gun control'
In restarting gun violence research, Walensky said she wants the CDC to find common ground with gun owners. "Let's agree, we don't want people to die. Let's just agree there. What can we do to stop people from dying, and what can we do to stop people from being injured," she said.
Walensky seems careful to avoid the ire of gun rights activists -- she doesn't even like using the word "gun," preferring the term "firearm." "Generally, the word gun, for those who are worried about research in this area, is followed by the word control, and that's not what I want to do here," she added. "I'm not here about gun control. I'm here about preventing gun violence and gun death."
She said she doesn't want people to think she is trying to take away their guns. "This is not a conversation about having them or not having them. This is a conversation about how we can make them being here safe," she said. "The research that we intend to do is going to be squarely about making America safe. Making people safe."
She invited gun owners to be part of the solution. "Come to the table. Join us in the conversation," she said. "I want you to teach me what you have done to make your gun safe, and then I want you to teach everybody else," she added.
"We cannot understand the research of firearm violence, firearm injury, without embracing wholeheartedly, the firearm owning community," she added. "I really do believe that the population of people who wants to own a gun doesn't want people hurt by them. The majority of the population does not want people hurt by them. I want them at the table."
The CDC's plan In April, President Joe Biden said the country was facing "a gun violence public health epidemic," but the CDC hasn't said how it plans to address the epidemic until now.
"I swore to the President and to this country that I would protect your health. This is clearly one of those moments, one of those issues that is harming America's health," Walensky said.
Decades after lobbying pressure and politics all but stopped gun violence research, Walensky's plan is to restart that research and identify effective solutions.
For example, the CDC is spending $2,224,482 to fund a surveillance mechanism that tracks, in nearly real time, the number of people coming into emergency rooms with nonfatal gunshot wounds. It collects data on the intent of the injury -- documenting, for example, whether it was self-inflicted, unintentional or related to an assault. "We don't even know who enters the emergency department, in most places, as a result of firearm injury -- we don't even know it," Walesnky said.
The NRA's next steps By speaking up, Walenksy risks enraging the NRA. If the gun lobby again pressures Congress to cut CDC gun research funding, it's unclear if lawmakers will acquiesce as they did in 1997.
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Bottom line…
It’s a bitch when you can't trust your government to tell the truth, do the right thing, or stay out of your business.
We are so screwed.
-- steve
“Nullius in verba.”-- take nobody's word for it!
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”
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