Abatis
Platinum Member
Provide the CDC links, please.
The more appropriate title would be the Dickish amendment. but, for your non-perusal...
Dickey Amendment - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Where did that law bar the CDC from doing gun related research?
All the law did was forbid the CDC to use public funds to advocate for gun control.
That the CDC decided to play it safe and roll back gun studies because it felt it was not capable of being impartial and detached and not act like politically driven shitbirds, is not the fault of the law or the NRA or the Republicans that wrote the law.
It is sad that the agency just couldn't leave the anti-gun activism to anti-gun political activists. Sad especially because the impartial reporting on gun crime the CDC does, always reflects badly on leftist policies and works against the gun control narrative.
In my gun control opposition I rely heavily on the gun death stats reported by the CDC because the data is garnered from death certificates which all jurisdictions are required to report to the CDC. One can really drill down in the stats, manner of death, age, race, ethnicity . . . The CDC's murder stats are far superior the FBI UCR which is a voluntary reporting system, many jurisdictions do not supply data so the UCR is not a complete statistic of crime.
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